Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disk of ...

The remnants of a protoplanet that slammed into Earth and created the moon may still be lurking deep in our planet's mantle. New research suggests that this impactor, which hit a just-formed Earth 4.5 ...

Researchers have detected a rare phenomenon in space, which has been described in detail within the journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters. For the first time, astronomers have captured what they ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Liège (Belgium) and Monash University (Australia) has just published the results of the analysis of data from the SPHERE instrument of the ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This story was updated at 3:15 p.m. EDT. New observations from a NASA spacecraft show that the ...

(CNN) — Vesta, the second-largest object in our solar system’s asteroid belt, is a protoplanet, according to research released Thursday. Scientists reviewed data from the Dawn spacecraft orbiting ...

An international research team has discovered a new planet so young that it has yet to emerge from the womb of matter where it is forming. This is the youngest protoplanet discovered to date. It's ...

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Astronomers have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disc of gas and dust. If confirmed, this discovery will greatly improve our ...