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

Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...

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

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

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

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

"We have been waiting for 10 years to confirm that our finely tuned operations of the telescope would also allow us to access ...

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

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

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

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

The discovery is keeping astronomers on their toes about how planets are formed.