A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

ALMA observations of the spiral patterns in the disk around the young star IM Lup. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy – and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. In a paper ...