General relativity helps explain the lack of planets around tight binary stars by driving orbital resonances that eject or destroy close-in worlds. This process naturally creates a “desert” of ...

A distant planet’s final spiral into its star reframed Earth’s fate: not one sudden end, but long quiet thresholds over deep time.

New research suggests Einstein's general relativity explains the rarity of planets orbiting two suns. In tight binary systems ...

Planet forming in between two large planets Credit Dr Mark Garlick/University of Warwick Researchers at the University of Warwick investigated the “birth environment” of planets – areas of gas and ...

When it comes to explaining how planets are formed, the protoplanetary hypothesis is the most widely accepted explanation. In simple terms, the donut-shaped disc of dust and gas around a star forms ...

Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a strange middle category. .

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

A global team of astronomers, led by the University of Warwick, have used a European Space Agency (ESA) telescope to discover ...

Regarding detection of planets that seem to have survived the death of their star, there seems to be an assumption that a planet in orbit close to a white dwarf was always in that orbit (16/23 ...

Researchers at the University of Warwick investigated the “birth environment” of planets – areas of gas and dust that swirl around a central star – known as the protoplanetary disc. They discovered a ...