Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...

Hit-and-run collisions between embryonic planets during a critical period in the early history of the Solar System may account for some previously unexplained properties of planets, asteroids, and ...

Planets travel alone in space, without a parent star. These wandering worlds, far from being rare, might even be extremely ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

From chaos we all began, and to chaos we’ll all return, but not for a very, very long time — 5 billion years or so, more or less. In the journal Nature on Thursday, two French scientists, using arcane ...

Astronomers still aren't exactly sure how planets get their start. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you want to build a planet, ...

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for ...

When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Based on new simulations, ...