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 ...

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

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 ...