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

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many of these planets have properties that differ significantly from the eight ...

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

Now, finding a young planet like this is a fairly difficult task, as it requires a long and patient hunt for young disk ...

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

This is not a simulation or an artist’s rendering — it’s a real observation, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science. Hosted by Dr. Mike Reed, Astro Brief focuses on astronomical ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient crystals reveal that Earth began recycling its crust and forming continents billions of years earlier than scientists ...