WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star. The discovery defies current understanding of how ...

Science teaches us that stars are much larger than planets, but what about large planets that orbit small stars? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of ...

Astronomers are scratching their heads over a recently discovered planet. The planet, dubbed TOI-6894b, orbits a star 238 light-years from Earth. The planet is huge; the star is tiny, a red dwarf only ...

The host star, TOI-6894, is a red dwarf with only 20% the mass of the Sun, typical of the most common stars in our galaxy. Until now, such low-mass stars were not thought capable of forming or ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected what appears to be a faint and small star-forming complex. The discovery of the new complex, which received the designation LAP2, ...

Illustration of the planetary system of L 98-59: five small exoplanets orbit closely around this red dwarf star, located 35 light-years away. In the foreground is the habitable-zone super-Earth L ...