"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly ...

For decades, planet formation existed mostly in theory and simulations. Now, astronomers have captured direct evidence ...

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

“This research helps us understand how planets form and evolve… by studying what’s happening inside Jupiter, we get closer to ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

“Textbooks will need to be updated,” study co-author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, said in a statement. “The size of Jupiter hasn’t changed, of ...

Korean researchers have uncovered the secret to how planets and comets could form far from a star — considered a mystery until now — by finding the key in a substance named crystalline silicates as ...

NASA's Perseverance rover discovered rocks on Mars, providing new evidence the red planet was once a wet, habitable world ...