Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't ...

Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

A 0.8 nm amorphous carbon coating grown on hard disk media matches the protective performance of films three times thicker, ...

Using ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have investigated three open clusters in the galactic disk, namely Berkeley 17, 18 ...

The planets in our solar system grew out of a disk of material that swirled around our Sun. Inner rocky planets formed as tiny grains stuck together ...

The new plot twist is that in order to keep enough nitrogen and phosphorus near its surface, a planet has to start out with ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful magnetic fields steering gas, dust, and star formation in a dramatic galaxy merger.

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

When a sky-survey telescope in Chile pointed out a small, moving point of light the first thought was business as ...

An autonomously operating machine in the field still seemed like science fiction a few years ago, but it has now become reality.

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that ...