Brown dwarfs are often called “failed stars.” They form like stars but are not massive enough to fuse hydrogen into helium as stars do. More like giant planets, brown dwarfs can often have storms in ...

It is a long-standing question in exoplanet research if Hot Jupiters can influence the magnetic activity of their host stars. While cool stars usually spin down with age and become inactive, an input ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some planets are just flipping backward. Of the more than 500 planets detected around stars besides our Sun, the vast majority appear to spin the same way the star does, ...

A new method for "weighing" the planets in our solar system one that relies on the radio signals delivered from highly magnetized spinning stars has been developed by an international research team.

The classical picture of star and planet formation suggests that a star’s rotational axis and the orbital planes of its planets should be aligned. However, exoplanetary systems have considerable ...

A couple of dozen Earth-like planets orbiting M dwarfs have been discovered so far. Some of them have attracted interest because of their potential long-term habitability. I show that the General ...