The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

"The extraordinary results are an essential step toward understanding the initial conditions that lead to the formation of Earth-like planets." Infant planets are ravenous little blighters that ...

An artist’s conception of the exoplanet K2-33b, a 10 Myr Jupiter-sized planet, transiting in front of its active host star. This system is comparable to those which will be observed by the KRONOS ...

How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist anywhere else in the cosmos? Questions that have long eluded astronomers could finally be answered with the ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects -- celestial bodies with masses between stars and planets -- form? An international team of astronomers has used advanced simulations to show that these enigmatic ...

In an incredible breakthrough, a team of international astronomers have for the first time ever witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own. The ...

Astronomers have long grappled with the question, “How do planets form?” A new collaboration among Arizona State University (ASU) , Michigan State University (MSU) and Lawrence Livermore National ...

Update: NASA is now targeting a launch for Friday, March 7. Find the latest information on the mission here. How did the ...