The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object, Companion Candidate 1 (CC1), in the WISPIT 2 system. This intriguing find, ...

Astronomers have spotted heavy water in the disk of a young star for the first time. What’s wild is that this water seems to ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.