There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Planets that orbit white dwarf stars should be too hot to host alien life, theories suggest. But a new study accounting for ...

Astronomers using ALMA report that many protoplanetary disks are not perfectly flat and serene. Instead, these birthplaces of planets are warped and irregular. The result reframes how worlds grow and ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...

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Snapchat Planets, part of the Snapchat Plus Friend Solar System, ranks you in a friend’s top 8 based on your interactions, from Mercury (#1) to Neptune (#8). Each friend has their own solar system ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

It’s an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero,” scientists reported Wednesday, when new worlds begin to gel. “We’ve captured a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born ...