Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

How does a star affect the makeup of its planets? And what does this mean for the habitability of distant worlds? Carnegie's Luke Bouma is exploring a new way to probe this critical question—using ...

A young star cluster does not begin life in the open. It starts buried inside thick clouds of gas and dust, hidden from ...

Artist's rendition of the space weather around M dwarf TIC 141146667. The torus of ionized gas is sculpted by the star's magnetic field and rotation, with two pinched, dense clumps present on opposing ...

The galaxy’s most common stars rarely host sub-Neptune planets, revealing a new pattern in how close-in worlds form.

Astronomers have confirmed a giant planet orbiting a tightly bound pair of young stars, marking a first in direct exoplanet imaging. The planet, known as HD 143811 AB b, is the closest-in world ever ...

Starlight has been the key to finding thousands of exoplanets over the past decade, but researchers have found a new way to ...