The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Before he played Peaches in Task, Owen Teague starred as Noa the ape in the 2024 blockbuster, Kingdom of the Planet of the ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...

NASA aims to study rocky planets similar to Earth and analyse their atmospheres for biosignatures. The James Webb Space ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

Seismic activity on the Red Planet – called Marsquakes instead of earthquakes – has allowed scientists to study Mars' “lumpy” ...