The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

New images of a young star made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) reveal what scientists think may be the very earliest stages in the formation of planets. The scientists used the VLA to ...

The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

Observing the object over several months, they found it flared up dramatically. It's gobbling up 6 billion tonnes of mass per ...

Astronomers have recently tracked a massive rogue planet, referred to as a “super-Jupiter,” that is drifting toward our solar neighborhood. This discovery has captured the attention of the scientific ...

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 ...

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers surprising insights into the universality of planet formation. In a recent ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

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 ...

WISPIT 2b was detected as part of a five-year observational research project during which the international team sought to establish whether wide orbit gas giant planets were more common around ...

Astronomers are buzzing over 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object hurtling through our solar system, and a new theory claims it can ...