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

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

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

During this clumping together, gaps open up in the protoplanetary disk, which we see as rings around the star. The Atacama ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

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

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

Spontaneous gas explosions appear to be increasing in northern Russia because of climate change and some specific local ...

The discovery that water existed in liquid form a billion years after the parent body of Ryugu formed came from the study of ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

Stellar migration may greatly increase the number of habitable planets in the Milky Way. Future ESA missions will test these predictions with detailed exoplanet observations. What can the Galactic Hab ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...