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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called ...

Researchers at McGill University and collaborating institutions have mapped the atmospheric features of a planetary-mass ...

Astronomers have discovered that aging stars may be devouring their closest giant planets as they swell into red giants.

Richard Fishacre challenged the scientific orthodoxy of his day, and contemporary astrophysics has vindicated his position.

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Aging stars may be destroying the giant planets orbiting closest to them, according to a new study by astronomers at UCL and ...

Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.

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