New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational ...

A planet orbiting two suns has been imaged - a rare achievement made even more striking by how closely the world hugs its stellar pair. The newly confirmed exoplanet circles its twin stars at a ...

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 ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our understanding of how planets form. These slight tilts, similar to those seen ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...

How did a planet this big form around a star this small? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, ...

A groundbreaking new study of small, rocky extrasolar planets has made a tentative statistical correlation between the planets’ chemical makeup and their parent stars’ birthplace within our Milky Way ...