The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) imaged both of the planets directly, and PDS 70b has the ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers discovered supersonic winds on a giant gas planet located over 500 light-years from Earth. In a study released Tuesday in Astronomy & Astrophysics astronomers who have been studying ...

A new study is offering a clearer picture of how planets are born alongside stars, with the lead researcher from British ...

Many scientists have long thought that developing planets should resemble the swirling disk of gas and dust that births them.

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light ... shedding light on the origins of our own Solar System,” says David Cont from the Ludwig Maximilian ...

Ever since its discovery in 2016, astronomers have been investigating the weather on WASP-127b, a giant gas ... planet formation and potentially shedding light on the origins of our own Solar ...