The James Webb and Very Large telescopes spotted a free-floating planet accreting material at a record rate, displaying ...

The world of Helldivers 2 is full of numerous planets for gamers to liberate them from alien threats. Players will find themselves fighting and besting the Illuminate, Terminids, and Automatons in ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 ...

The first map of magnetic fields in a planetary formation disk has been created, revealing how invisible forces shape the ...

The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made ...

Astronomers just discovered a gas giant on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter — and it’s extremely weird. An exoplanet on a twisted, backwards orbit may offer clues about how hot Jupiters (giant gas ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Dimitris Stamatellos receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

Rogue planets may be more common than we thought, and they may form alone in the void in the same way stars do, suggests a recent study. We think we know how the universe is structured: Moons orbit ...

Located some 620 light-years away in the Chamaeleon constellation, scientists recorded Cha 1107-7626 accreting six to eight ...

Scientists may finally have an answer for why the ferocious jet streams on the solar system’s giant planets blow in opposite ...