Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...