The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Objects like 3I/ATLAS could become the "seeds" of giant planets after being captured in the discs of dust and gas surrounding ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many ...

New images of a young star made with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) reveal what scientists think may be the very earliest stages in the formation of planets. The scientists used the VLA to ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

Scientists have long been intrigued by the surfaces of terrestrial bodies other than Earth that reveal deep similarities beneath their superficially differing volcanic and tectonic histories. A team ...

WISPIT 2b is present between the third and fourth disks of WISPIT, 434 light-years away from Earth, and was captured by ...

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 ...

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

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 ...