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 ...

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

A team of astronomers recently discovered something they didn’t predict in a “cosmic hamburger” — one of the biggest ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, challenging many of the previously held assumptions about planetary ...

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

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 ...

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

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...