"Our ability to detect and observe young planets is often limited by how 'quiet' the planet's host star is," Galen Bergsten, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, told Space.com.

These damaging waves of radiation are smacking into AU Mic b, which is located just 6 million miles from the star — a tenth of distance between our sun and its closest planet, Mercury.

Astronomers have confirmed that differences in binary stars' composition can originate from chemical variations in the cloud of stellar material from which they formed. The results help explain ...

"Our ability to detect and observe young planets is often limited by how 'quiet' the planet's host star is," Galen Bergsten, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, told Space.com.

"Our ability to detect and observe young planets is often limited by how 'quiet' the planet's host star is," Galen Bergsten, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Arizona, told Space.com.