Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around stars — nurseries that give birth to planets — are generally smaller than previously thought. Some are so small, in fact, ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Astronomers have spotted a monster-sized planet that could be up to ten times the size of Jupiter emerging from the stellar fog surrounding a young star. Prior observations of the roughly 13 ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas that surrounds its star, also called a protoplanetary disc? This is what a ...

How do exoplanet atmospheres form and evolve? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated two young exoplanets within a protoplanetary disk ...

Every planet in the solar system leans, some gently, some dramatically, and that tilt quietly shapes everything from our seasons to the deep history of how worlds are born. For decades, astronomers ...

In a monumental breakthrough for space exploration, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled its first-ever exoplanet, TWA 7b. This discovery is more than just another addition to the ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand-new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter. What's more, the find represents the first clear detection of ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif) — Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars ...

"As the large and bright discs are the easiest to observe, our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around ...