Astronomers have, for the first time, detected a planet growing inside a cleared gap of a protoplanetary disk, confirming long-held theories about how young planets shape their star systems.

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger than Jupiter.

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.

The astronomy community has been buzzing lately with new discoveries from Kepler data that directly challenge our previous ...

Recently, the field of astronomy has been quite lively, as new discoveries from Kepler data have directly overturned our previous understanding of planetary orbits!

The recently discovered interstellar object 3I/Atlas is set for a close flyby of Mars in October, where it can be observed by ...

Using a cutting-edge adaptive optics system developed at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, a growing planet ...

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Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

A team of astronomers has detected for the first time a growing planet outside our solar system, embedded in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed disk of ...

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory "will draw on technologies proven by the agency’s Hubble, Webb and upcoming Roman Space ...