Incredible images reveal the moment a new planet begins to sculpt spirals of dust and gas around its home star, located over 440 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

"We will never witness the formation of Earth, but here, around a young star 440 light-years away, we may be watching a ...

The first direct detection of a protoplanet confirms a long-held theory while presenting new possibilities for understanding ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding a young star.

Unprecedented observation of planets beginning to form 1,300 light-years away offers vital clues about how Earth and other ...

A monster exoplanet as big as 10 times the size of Jupiter has emerged from the stellar gas and dust surrounding a young star ...