A University of Mississippi researcher will study the earliest stages of planet formation and the chemical abundance of the ...

Can one witness a new world being born, sculpting its stellar cradle as it emerges out of cosmic dust? In the spinning protoplanetary disc around HD 135344B, 440 light-years away from Earth, ...

What: A newly identified star system, Gaia GIC1, exhibits unusual brightness variations consistent with a large planetary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New study finds cosmic warps in planet-forming discs, reshaping how scientists understand turbulence, angular momentum, and planet ...

The astro-modified camera used to take this photo lets in the hydrogen alpha light that is normally filtered out. This modification makes the camera more sensitive to the red end of the ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be violent and chaotic. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

Planets form within protoplanetary disks: vast disks of gas and dust orbiting around very young stars. From the finest dust grains to fully-formed planets, several distinct physical processes occur.

Modelling suggests that the layer beneath the planet’s acidic clouds is comprised of particles from outer space.

University of Washington astronomers have published evidence of a possible planetary collision that could inform our ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...