The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

During this clumping together, gaps open up in the protoplanetary disk, which we see as rings around the star. The Atacama ...

Astronomers have directly observed a 'baby planet' carving a gap in a dust disk around a newborn star for the first time. Previously, similar gaps in star disks had been observed, but the objects ...

Professor Susanne Pfalzner from the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany presented her new findings at the EPSC-DPS2025 joint meeting held in Helsinki: interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS could become ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

The reptiles had such an "immense" impact on the planet that their sudden exit led to wide-scale changes. The post How ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature.