Using the now-retired Kepler space telescope, astronomers have discovered that larger planets grow up in more turbulent homes ...

All planets are made of gas, ice, rock and metal, and models of how planets form usually assume that these materials don't ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

Known as planet-forming disks, they are believed to be a short-lived feature around most, if not all, young stars, providing the raw materials for planets to form. Most of these planetary ...

Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of four planets orbiting a star less than 6 light-years away with help from some of ...

The astronomers studied 73 protoplanetary disks in the Lupus region, a prominent star-forming section in space ... our previous view of the birth site of planets was biased." ...

This illustration shows a lower mass star surrounded by its planet-forming disk of gas and dust. The planet formation process would cause gaps, not shown in this illustration, to appear in the disk.