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

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

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

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...

Indian astronomers using James Webb Space Telescope data have detected complex hydrocarbon molecules in the planet-forming disk of a young star, offering insights into early planet formation ...

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 ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

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 ...

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

A European team of astronomers has discovered that dust particles around a star already coagulate before the star is fully grown. Dust particle growth is the first step in the formation of planets.