In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star ...

A revamped idea of how quickly planets can form came in August 2022, when astronomers found the youngest exoplanet ever discovered, a gassy world 395 light-years from Earth and merely 1.5 million ...

See the birth of a PLANET: Incredible photos reveal the weird and wonderful ways worlds form in different regions of ... 'It is not at all clear if every disk will form a planet,' he told MailOnline.

For centuries—and, frankly, until quite recently—astronomers were baffled by planet formation. They saw points of light in the sky moving in a neat, orderly fashion, but many crucial details ...

New image reveals secrets of planet birth Date: July 25, 2023 Source: ESO Summary: Astronomers have gained new clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form.

At the centre of this image is the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Dusty material with potential to form planets surrounds the star.

NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano.

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet -- a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system -- using a technique known as 'transit timing variation'.