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

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

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

Astronomers have just confirmed one of the strangest kinds of worlds imaginable, a planet drifting through the galaxy with no ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

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