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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A free-floating planet has been seen devouring astonishing amounts of matter, hinting that stars and planets are more alike than we thought ...