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 ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

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 ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our ...

This young star system, located several light-years away from Earth, has long been a subject of interest due to its rich surroundings of gas and dust—ideal conditions for planet formation. Until now, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

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