The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

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

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

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

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 ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...

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 ...

Dust disks around stars where exoplanets form have been imaged for years. However, they become darker and elude research – ...

Image of the young nearby 2MASS1612 system (also known as: RIK113) taken with the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. The image uses near infrared light that was scattered of the dust particles ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.