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

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

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

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

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

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

Planetary systems begin in chaos. In their primitive form, many rocky and icy objects are careening through space, smashing ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth approach on Dec. 19, offering astronomers a rare chance to study a visitor from beyond the solar system ...

What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we’ve seen, ...

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 have gotten very good at spotting the signs of planet formation around stars. But for a complete understanding of planet formation, we also need to study examples where planet formation ...