A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to new planets. Not only is it the largest planet-forming disk astronomers ...

How did a planet this big form around a star this small? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, ...

CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...