The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...

The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

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

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to new planets. Not only is it the largest planet-forming disk astronomers ...

What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.

An international team discovered a new planet, WISPIT 2b, orbiting the young star WISPIT 2 in the constellation Aquila. The planet, estimated to be approximately 5 million years old, is a likely gas ...