Astronomers have uncovered a unique exoplanet system, revealing a surprising and rare pattern among its planets. The ...

How do planetary systems form and evolve? This is what a new and groundbreaking laboratory at the Southwest Research ...

A newly analyzed planetary system has turned up a world orbiting at such a skewed angle that it defies the neat textbook ...

Researchers have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could expand our ...

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 ...

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An artist’s impression of the two new planets discovered. An inner super-Earth, here seen transiting in front of the orange host-star and an icy giant planet on the periphery of the system. The ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The James Webb Space Telescope has observed two large planets at different stages of infancy - one with an atmosphere brimming with dusty clouds and the other encircled by a disk ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...