Many protoplanetary disks in which new planets are formed are much smaller than thought. Using the Atacama Large ...

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

Astronomers using the mighty James Webb Space Telescope have captured direct images of four planets in a star system 130 ...

Large and small planets are born from very different circumstances, according to data from NASA’s now-retired space telescope ...

But another theory known as disk instability — which is pretty controversial — holds that gas giants can also spawn in the massive protoplanetary disk that surrounds a star shortly after it's ...

From the fall of the Soviet Union to the rise of Amazon, the 90s reshaped our world in profound ways. Join us as we count down the decade's most transformative events that continue to influence our ...

JWST's findings in the HR 8799 system provide key insights into gas giant formation, revealing carbon dioxide and enriching ...

By Sage Rohrbach A photo of five of Saturn’s moons, captured by the Cassani spacecraft. The moons visible are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the universe. It's also ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...