A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

Imagine studying the formation of a star 5 million years in the making, a newborn in the jargon of astronomers, that's tucked away in a "cosmic nursery" light-years away and yielding two growing ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

When a star is born, it doesn’t emerge in isolation. Instead, it forms inside a large, chaotic cloud of gas and dust. Around it, a flat disk of spinning material takes shape. This protoplanetary disk ...

Warm Jupiters are rewriting the rules of planet formation - showing eccentric orbits that stay strangely aligned with their ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

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 ...

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still ...

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...