A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

This video explores how scientists determine the ages of planets and which worlds formed first, based on planetary formation, geology, and evidence from space missions.

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Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

The solar system’s most giant planet is slightly less of a giant than scientists once thought. Jupiter, a planet so huge it could hold 1,000 Earths, is 8 kilometers less wide at its equator and 24 ...

V1298 Tau links swollen young worlds to the compact planets that astronomers keep finding, and its timing signals made that connection measurable. Future transit-timing and atmospheric observations ...

New simulations suggest Jupiter holds far more water than once thought, reshaping ideas about how the largest planet formed.

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Sometimes it’s the small gestures or acts of service, like fulfilling the promise of “in sickness and in health,” that make the biggest imprint on a partner’s heart, says Robyn Cowley, who caught a ...