Researchers now appreciate that gas planets are more complex than first thought. New findings have implications for our ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds ...

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our understanding of how different types of planets form. While dust lingers, ...

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Astronomers found a giant planet orbiting one of the smallest stars ever known to host one, challenging everything we thought ...

Scientists have discovered a giant planet orbiting a tiny red dwarf star, something they believed wasn t even possible. The planet, TOI-6894b, is about the size of Saturn but orbits a star just a ...

When the Sun expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer regions.

from systems like our solar system with a mix of gas and ice giants to more exotic systems including those with two suns. What they discovered was a recurring pattern: Planets were frequently ...

ALMA study shows gas in young planet-forming disks fades faster than dust, reshaping how we understand planet formation.

Astronomers have captured silicate clouds and a mysterious disk around two giant young exoplanets, revealing surprises that ...