Every planet in the solar system leans, some gently, some dramatically, and that tilt quietly shapes everything from our ...

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

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense star-forming regions, revealing that Earth-like planets can form even in ...

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 ...

Planets travel alone in space, without a parent star. These wandering worlds, far from being rare, might even be extremely ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

New radio astronomy observations of a planetary system in the process of forming show that once the first planets form close to the central star, these planets can help shepherd the material to form ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers surprising insights into the universality of planet formation. In a recent ...

Researchers may have discovered the secret ingredient of planet growth, which causes some worlds to grow rapidly in disks of gas and dust around infant stars. The model could be of specific value in ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this ...

How did life begin on Earth? While scientists have theories, they don't yet fully understand the precise chemical steps that ...