Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

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 ...

A new study published in Nature has revealed a rare glimpse into the early life of four young exoplanets orbiting the star ...

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Gaia data reveals signs of planets forming around young stars by measuring stellar motion, identifying planetary, brown dwarf, and stellar companions in early star systems ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...