Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

For decades, scientists have studied how planets form by looking at young stars nearby, assuming that these environments could be representative of all star systems. However, as astronomers discover ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to how our own solar system was born. When you purchase through links on our ...