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

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

Gaia data reveals signs of planets forming around young stars by measuring stellar motion, identifying planetary, brown dwarf, and stellar companions in early star systems ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

Key takeawaysPlanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar ...