Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...

Learn how a new discovery of a giant planet can help scientists refine their theories of how planets form.

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

Signs of planet formation may appear earlier than expected around still-forming baby stars, according to new results of ...

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our understanding of how different types of planets form. While dust lingers, ...

Southwest Research Institute has collaborated with Yale University to summarize the scientific community's notable progress ...

ALMA study shows gas in young planet-forming disks fades faster than dust, reshaping how we understand planet formation.

In an unprecedented discovery, astronomers have detected a rare exoplanet located at the very edge of the Milky Way galaxy, ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Wide-orbit planets are fairly common according to the study, and there's a good chance we have one of our own.