Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of ...

A planet orbiting two suns has been imaged - a rare achievement made even more striking by how closely the world hugs its stellar pair. The newly confirmed exoplanet circles its twin stars at a ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers surprising insights into the universality of planet formation. In a recent ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our understanding of how planets form. These slight tilts, similar to those seen ...

How did a planet this big form around a star this small? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, ...

It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero,” scientists reported Wednesday, when new worlds begin to gel. “We’ve captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born ...