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 ...

This story was updated at 3:15 p.m. EDT. New observations from a NASA spacecraft show that the huge asteroid Vesta is a battered protoplanet left over from the solar system's early days, with a unique ...

Through the looking glass: Those following science news have likely seen a fair number of recent stories regarding the discovery of exoplanets, black holes, and galaxies that defy current scientific ...

A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar disk. My colleagues and I have used computer simulations to show that newborn gas planets in these ...

Image of the HD 169142 system showing the signal of the forming planet HD 169142 b (around 11 o’clock), as well as a bright spiral arm resulting from the dynamic interaction between the planet and the ...