Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

In the last 25 years, scientists have discovered over 4000 planets beyond the borders of our solar system. From relatively small rock and water worlds to blisteringly hot gas giants, the planets ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense star-forming regions, revealing that Earth-like planets can form even in ...

Scientists have long been intrigued by the surfaces of terrestrial bodies other than Earth that reveal deep similarities beneath their superficially differing volcanic and tectonic histories. A team ...

Artist's conception of a protoplanetary disc, showing yellowish-gray rings of dust around a central yellow star. Clouds of dust and gas not far from our solar system are giving astronomers a rare ...

(CNN) — Astronomers are questioning the theories of planet formation after discovering an exoplanet that technically shouldn’t exist. The planet, about the mass of Neptune and more than 13 times as ...

New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers surprising insights into the universality of planet formation. In a recent ...

Normally," rings around a planet are created from the remnants of meteors, moons or left over planet pieces. But this is not ...

The results indicate that the elements essential for life formed within extreme, highly energetic environments deep inside ...

Compared to the previous observations (left), the new ALMA observations (right) at longer wavelengths can better see into the dust ring and reveal a concentration of dust to the north-west (upper ...