The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed.

In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still tearing apart massive quantities of rock. “The rate we’ve seen rock consumed ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

New simulations from Rice University reveal how Jupiter’s rapid early growth blocked gas and dust from reaching the Sun, ...

When the solar system was first organizing itself, a disk of gas and dust took shape around the sun's central mass. It eventually sorted itself into the system of planets we see today. But there are ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Astronomers have probed deeper than before into a planetary system 130 light-years from Earth. The observations mark the first results of a new exoplanet survey called LEECH (LBT Exozodi Exoplanet ...