Recent research suggests that giant planets may form around supermassive black holes, challenging traditional views that ...

Astronomers have used the ALMA radio telescope to investigate how planets grow in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around ...

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 ...

How did a planet this big form around a star this small? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Liège and collaborators in UK, Chile, the USA, and Europe, ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our understanding of how planets form. These slight tilts, similar to those seen ...

We already know a decent amount about how planets form, but moon formation is another process entirely, and one we're not as familiar with. Scientists think they understand how the most important moon ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

An artist's impression of the planetary system surrounding LHS 1903, a small red dwarf star cooler and dimmer than our Sun. (European Space Agency) (CN) — For decades, astronomers thought they had ...