Astronomers are just beginning to scratch the surface of the complex, and sometimes violent, relationships between planets and their parent stars. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

"We expected to see this effect, but we were still surprised by just how efficient these stars seem to be at engulfing their close planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomy has a way of defying labels. Just when researchers think they've drawn a clean line between two cosmic categories, nature tosses in something unexpected. Take stars and planets. A star is a ...

A thin shell of air wraps around Earth, stretching about 20 miles above the surface. This invisible veil is packed with tiny molecules that sustain life. Just beyond this fragile layer lies the ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants. Using NASA’s TESS telescope to study nearly half a million stars, scientists ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...