In a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers have uncovered an astonishing revelation about ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

With wind speeds exceeding 5000 mph, the fastest planetary winds lie on planets not present in our Solar System. The change in the red vs. blue character of exoplanet HD 189733b reveals its winds ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

NASA's First Planetary Lidar The experimental MARLI, which the team believes will be mature enough to propose for a future orbiter mission in a couple of years, could become NASA's first planetary ...

While our solar system is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old, Beta Pictoris is considered a “teenage planetary system” at 20 million years old, said astronomer Christine Chen, a ...