Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where ...

Looking ahead: Future searches using data from TESS and Gaia could target the lower-density edges of stellar streams to locate intact planetary systems. The work explores how a star’s birthplace ...

A newly discovered object orbiting far beyond Neptune has its closest approach to the Sun pointed in the opposite direction from every other known body like it, weakening one of the central ...