Astronomers have discovered an exoplanetary system, 116 light-years away, that could redefine our understanding of how ...

The black star represents the position of the star. The colored lines are the orbits of two planets. The yellow one is the outer, and it is highly inclined. The inner one is the red one. As time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s illustration depicts a large disk of planetary debris, surrounded by a thick cloud of dust and gas, as it passes in ...

Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that quickly devour what remains of the star-circling gas and dust clouds in which they form. The gas in these protoplanetary disks disappears rapidly, ...

A new set of observations from the James Webb Space Telescope has captured intricate dusty structures surrounding a young, forming planet, offering unprecedented insights into the earliest stages of ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a pair of scientists from the Southwest Research ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

How do water and hydrogen interact in planetary evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the ...