Astronomers Identified a Lemon-Shaped Planet Displaying a Feature 'Unlike Anything Observed Before' ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

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

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, a massive, burger-shaped cloud of dust 1,000 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / ESA / STScI / Kristina Monsch / ...

Young stars much less massive than the sun can unleash a torrent of X-ray radiation that can significantly shorten the lifetime of planet-forming disks surrounding these stars. This result comes from ...