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

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 ...

What are the physical mechanisms of planetary system formation and evolution? To address this broad question, a team of scientists led by the astronomy department at the University of Geneva decided ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers led by UNIGE is launching a major research program on Neptunes to better understand the mechanisms of formation and evolution of ...

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

Astronomers utilized data from the Gemini South telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) from NASA to detect silane (SiH₄) in the atmosphere of "The Accident." This simple molecule ...

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 ...

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