Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of ...

A team of researchers has recently claimed they have discovered a gas called dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of ...

It is the largest object in the Solar System, but recent studies suggest it was once twice as large as it is today.

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around them is evolving.

These techniques reduce distortions and sharpen clarity, boosting astronomers' ability to map out the planet formation process with greater precision by revealing finer structures within the ...

Clues that pointed astronomers to these locations included swirling gas influenced by an early planet’s gravity, as well as rings and gaps of dust inside dust disks. The survey also clearly showed ...

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, according to a new study.

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

Further contraction would detach a series of rings. These were then expected to break up in such a way that each produced a gaseous planet. This might later evolve in the same way as the original ...

The solar system is our cosmic neighborhood, made up of the sun and everything that orbits it — planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and even dust and gas. The order of the planets in the solar ...

Saturn is the second-largest planet in the solar system. Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system. Known for its stunning rings, Saturn is a gas ...