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, ...
We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...
Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
Astronomers have finally figured out how the most common types of planets in our galaxy are formed—by watching a set of baby planets grow up in real time. These worlds, found in a young star system ...
A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...