A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

The observation helped determine the rates at which these stars lose mass via their stellar winds, finding these winds shrink about 67 times as fast as the sun loses mass via its own solar winds.

Astronomers found a giant planet orbiting one of the smallest stars ever known to host one, challenging everything we thought ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets ...

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

The theoretical upper limit for a star is about 300 solar masses (abbreviated M☉), but in reality, there are precious few stars above 120 M☉. The most massive stars, suspected or confirmed ...

Scientists have spotted a massive planet where one shouldn't be able to exist, according to leading theories of planet ...

Astronomers have determined the heaviest neutron star known to date, weighing in at 2.35 solar masses, according to a recent paper published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. How did it get so ...

Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands have conducted a study of coronal mass ejections on a young solar-type star known as AB Doradus. Results of the new research, published August ...