"Throwing a close companion into the mix could possibly wreak further havoc on the already complicated processes surrounding ...

Astronomers have recently discovered compelling evidence suggesting that ageing stars, similar to our Sun, consume nearby ...

Close companions can influence stellar evolution in many ways. While some companions can be detected around young stellar ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered that aging stars in their so-called "red giant" phase are even more destructive to their orbiting planets than ...

The Earth will be swallowed by the Sun, or torn to pieces - a bleak prospect recently proposed by scientists, but in the very distant future.

Recent observations of a dying star have offered a chilling glimpse into the cataclysmic fate that awaits Earth billions of ...

This extreme expansion poses a serious threat to nearby planets. For example, when the Sun becomes a red giant in about 5 ...

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 ...