Scientists have detected a rare molecule near a young star, but its unexpected abundance raises a puzzling question.

When a star reaches the end of its life, its surroundings are also quietly tidied up.I somehow imagine that kind of order. A ...

A research team has discovered rings, grooves, and cavities in extremely compact disks surrounding young stars.

Scientists did not arrive at Earth’s age from one clue. Several very different measurements keep pointing toward the same ...

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Scientists detected the very first exoplanets around a pulsar — a type of rapidly rotating dead star — and because pulsars ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars, despite their shared cosmic origins, underwent distinct formation processes involving different proportions of pebble accretion and planetesimal contributions ...

JWST has revealed that young planetary systems lose their planet-building gas through a changing mix of powerful jets, molecular winds, and radiation-driven outflows. As the disks age and their gas ...

The exoplanet, known as Elias 2-24 b, is about the size of Jupiter — and it’s still forming W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko Elias 2-24 b is the youngest planet ever discovered The planet, about ...

A small planet circling a nearby red dwarf is moving through its planetary system in a direction that challenges the standard picture of how planets are born. GJ 3090 b is a sub-Neptune with a radius ...

Astronomers have discovered exoplanets — worlds orbiting other stars — in a wide range of sizes, masses and ages. That includes some planets that are very young, still forming in the disks of debris ...