Planet-hosting stars are stars which host planets, therefore forming planetary systems. There are correlations between stars' characteristics and the...

The fictional universe of the Star Wars franchise features multiple planets and moons. While only the feature films and selected other works are considered...

liquid is present. A "hot" eyeball planet is usually closer to its host star, and the centre of the "eye", facing the star (day side), is made of rock while...

Telescope simultaneously detected a coronal explosion on the nearest planet-hosting star Proxima Centauri On 6 November 2017 Nature Astronomy published a...

in France discovered the planet orbiting the star HD 189733 on October 5, 2005, by observing its transit across the star's face. With a mass 11.2% higher...

every 0.48 days. It was the most active planet hosting star in their sample. The team studying the host star also found that L 34-26 is fast rotating...

a pulsar, and the first detection around a main-sequence star was in 1995. A different planet, first detected in 1988, was confirmed in 2003. In 2016,...

precisely Tau Boötis Ab, is an extrasolar planet approximately 51 light-years away. The planet and its host star is one of the planetary systems selected...

Barnard's Star has focused on measuring its stellar characteristics, its astrometry, and also refining the limits of possible extrasolar planets. Although...

the planet-hosting star, which is 2.37. The deuterium burning limit also depends on the metallicity and abundance of helium. Metal-rich planets, for...

A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is generally required to be in orbit around a star, stellar remnant, or brown dwarf, and is not one...

ISSN 0004-6361. Donati, J.-F.; et al. (2008). "Magnetic cycles of the planet-hosting star Tau Boötis". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 385...

circumstellar planets in a binary system have stable orbits around one of the two stars, closer in than the orbital distance of the other star (see Habitability...

Any planet is an extremely faint light source compared to its parent star. For example, a star like the Sun is about a billion times as bright as the reflected...

convention, named for their host, or parent star, as is the case in our Solar Planetary System, named for its hosting, star, "Sol". As of 17 April 2025...

lists of planets. A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation...

moon orbits Tana—the Ewokese word for Endor's host planet—a gas giant located in the Endor system, a star system positioned in the Moddell sector of the...

of these fictional planets do not differ significantly from the Earth and serve only as settings for the narrative. The majority host native lifeforms,...

masses and evolution and enable the precise characterization of the planet host star, including its age. PLATO is an acronym, but also the name of a philosopher...

2023 and if confirmed could represent the lowest-mass star to host a close-in giant. The Planet Hunters project exploits the fact that humans are better...

(February 2011). "Determination of the inclination of the multi-planet hosting star HR 8799 using astero-seismology". The Astrophysical Journal Letters...

Planet Nine is a hypothetical ninth planet in the outer region of the Solar System. Its gravitational effects could explain the peculiar clustering of...

transiting planet HAT-P-2b at the time of discovery. The mass is 8.65 MJ. HD 155358 has two planets around the lowest metallicity planet-harboring star (21%...

of superhabitable planets. Surface planetary habitability is thought to require an orbit at the right distance from the host star for liquid surface...

main-sequence star. The largest objects that orbit the Sun are the eight planets. In order from the Sun, they are four terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus...

ecumenopolis planet in the fictional universe of Star Wars. It was first described in Timothy Zahn's 1991 novel Heir to the Empire. The planet made its first...

planet (4,880 km or 3,030 mi). Being the most inferior orbiting planet it appears in Earth's sky, always close to the Sun, either as a "morning star"...

An extragalactic planet, also known as an extragalactic exoplanet or an extroplanet, is a star-bound planet or rogue planet located outside of the Milky...

A hycean planet (/ˈhaɪʃən/ HY-shən) is a hypothetical type of planet that features a liquid water ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere. The term...

"morning star" or an "evening star", resulting from orbiting closer (inferior) to the Sun than Earth. Venus has no moons. Of all the planets, Venus has...