Researchers Nathan A. Kaib and Sean N. Raymond have evaluated how passing stars can affect the long-term stability of the ...

ESO/M. Kornmesser Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet 2M1510 (AB) b orbits two stars — like Luke ...

Astronomers have discovered that "super-Earth" planets may exist on wider orbits than previously thought — and this implies these rocky, or "terrestrial," worlds are far more common than was ...