In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

Astronomers have discovered a giant Saturn-sized planet orbiting TOI-6894, the smallest star ever known to host such a world.

The life cycles of stars are fascinating, and sometimes the line between stars and planets isn’t as clear as it […] ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

The textbook picture of how planets form – serene, flat discs of cosmic dust – has just received a significant cosmic twist.

Chemistry in the first 50 million to 100 million years after the Big Bang may have been more active than we expected.

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

Material that doesn't become a planet may be flung outward, beyond a growing star's gravitational influence.

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery challenges long-standing ideas about how planets form and orbit in the ...