When it comes to science, a simple observation can upend everything you think you know, such is the case with one star ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

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

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

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

By combining the power of ground-based and space-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered a new brown dwarf—a type of ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...

Astronomers have spotted heavy water in the disk of a young star for the first time. What’s wild is that this water seems to ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even Earth—is older than the disk's star itself, offering breakthrough insights into ...