For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed a planet in the midst of its formation, a groundbreaking achievement that provides invaluable insights into the processes that shape ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

The astro-modified camera used to take this photo lets in the hydrogen alpha light that is normally filtered out. This modification makes the camera more sensitive to the red end of the ...

Researchers have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could expand our ...

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 ...

A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments in planetary birth, where gas, pebbles, and gravity are still fighting over ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, ...

A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying ...

Scientists have long been intrigued by the surfaces of terrestrial bodies other than Earth that reveal deep similarities beneath their superficially differing volcanic and tectonic histories. A team ...