Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

A young star in the constellation Perseus has just rewritten the script for how stars are born. Astronomers mapping its ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most expansive protoplanetary disk documented to date, extending across 400 ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

For centuries, astronomers have tried to study the process of planetary formation. Thanks to modern technology like the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), experts can ...

What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple star GW Orionis. The system has three large ...

Simulations performed at Southwest Research Institute may explain how Saturn’s majestic rings and icy inner moons formed following the collision of a Titan-sized satellite with the planet, according ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As children, we learned about our solar system’s planets by certain characteristics — Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but ...

New research has cast doubt on the long-held belief that Saturn's rings are relatively young, suggesting instead that they could date back 4.5 billion years to when the planet formed. The study, led ...

Geological evidence, including an Ordovician-era increase in earthquakes, tsunamis, meteorites, and crater formation, suggests a significant celestial event approximately 466 million years ago. A ...