Astronomers have stumbled upon an incredible cosmic chain reaction: a young star launched a high-speed jet that ignited an ...

Planets form within the rotating disks of gas and dust that surround young stars, where particles collide and stick together through a process known as accretion. As developing rocky planets heat up, ...

Tentative detections of life-linked molecules in a star’s disk suggest planets may form with the ingredients for life already ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their ...

In a groundbreaking new study, astronomers have observed the birth of baby planets in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, located just 460 light-years from Earth. This discovery, made possible by ...

Astronomers using ALMA have captured the first evidence of a stellar jet interacting with a planet-forming disk, suggesting that planet formation may be far more chaotic than previously thought.

A new study from the University of St Andrews has found that giant, starless planets drifting alone through space may be able ...

Planets form within the disk, starting with collisions and accumulation among dust grains and ending with the gravitational assembly of planets. "Conventionally, it has been assumed that planetary ...

"Lava planets are in such extreme orbital configurations that our knowledge of rocky planets in the solar system does not ...

Incredible images reveal the moment a new planet begins to sculpt spirals of dust and gas around its home star, located over 440 light-years from Earth.

Roughly 212 light years away in the Virgo constellation lies a super-large exoplanet that has astronomers revising their theory of how giant gas planets form. The exoplanet, called WASP-107b, was ...

Scientists have observed an enormous planet about nine times the mass of Jupiter at a remarkably early stage of formation — describing it as still in the womb — in a discovery that challenges ...