Researchers have developed a new model to explain the formation of giant planets such as Jupiter, which furnishes deeper insights into the processes of planet formation and could expand our ...

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A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy – and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. In a paper ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has provided groundbreaking insights into the potential of giant, free-floating planets forming their own miniature planetary systems. These objects, ...

White dwarfs, the compact remnants of low- to intermediate-mass stars, offer a unique window into the fate of planetary systems. Recent observational and theoretical work has revealed that many white ...

Scientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing the ...

Astronomers have long sought to understand the processes that lead to the birth of planetary systems. Recently, a major breakthrough was achieved as scientists witnessed the early stages of planet ...

Image of the young nearby 2MASS1612 system (also known as: RIK113) taken with the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. The image uses near infrared light that was scattered of the dust particles ...

The results come from long-term Hubble observations of how each bright object quickly grew, became oval-shaped, and gradually ...

What can young exoplanets teach us about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as an international team of researchers have made a ...