PDS 70 third planet candidate gains new support as astronomers detect two dust clumps at Lagrangian points 120 degrees apart ...

Planets form from disks of gas and dust around young stars, but the gas needed for growth does not last forever. New ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have studied 72 young sun-like stars to discover that forming planets is a ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has successfully observed a site of planet formation by detecting a high concentration of dust grains, a planet-forming material, outside the ...

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

Elongated dust worms – rather than fluffy blobs of dust – are the seeds of planet formation, new microgravity experiments have shown. The research sheds light on the way planets condense from dusty ...

What processes are involved in the formation of planetary systems? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical ...

The birth of a planet starts with a microscopic grain floating in a protoplanetary disk, a swirling cloud of gas and other particles surrounding a young star. How the gas and dust interact has ...

Researchers have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could expand our ...

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 ...

Planets are thought to form in the disks of dust and gas found around young stars. But astronomers have struggled to assemble a complete theory of their origin that explains how the initial dust ...