The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

The exoplanet is the first confirmed detection of a planet in a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk, a disk that contains ...

Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant forming around a young Sun-like star, has been directly imaged for the first time inside a spectacular ...

An international team of astronomers has made a landmark discovery by capturing an image of a giant planet forming within a ...