Browsing: exoplanets

The distant planet would have been swallowed up when its star expanded into a red giant, possibly providing insight into planetary migration.

Exoplanets in binary star systems typically orbit both stars, but astronomers have now discovered three planets that orbit one of the stars in the pair.

Planets orbiting very close to white dwarfs may have formed within the star’s interior, making them the most promising source of worlds for the search for…