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 ...

Over the course of more than two decades, researchers at the University of Bern have developed the so-called "Bern model," a ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

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

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

Astronomers have photographed WISPIT 2b, a rare young planet forming in a dusty disk gap around a sun-like star. This ...

This allows us to observe the actual feeding process as the planet accumulates mass from its surroundings The system’s young ...

A team led by the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets at the University of Montreal publishes the most precise study to date of the planetary system around the star LP 98-59. This ...

Mainstream theories suggest that ultra-short period planets did not start in their current positions but migrated from ...

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

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