"There are still many things related to planetary formation and the early evolution of young planetary systems that we don't ...

Smaller gas giants are less likely to survive in such systems, surrounded by clashing planetary titans. With their lower ...

NASA has discovered an exoplanet larger than Earth that also contains gases which scientists believe could only be produced ...

According to the most widely held astronomical model (the nebular hypothesis), new stars are born from massive clouds of dust ...

Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical harmony.

"We must rethink how we create computer models for planet formation and early evolution in the young universe." Giant, gas-rich planets may have been able to form more easily in the very early ...

If the modern age of astronomy could be summarized in a few words, it would probably be "the age of shifting paradigms." ...

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 ...

Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a still ...

U. Chu (NASA Ames) Giant, gas-rich planets may have been able to form more easily in the very early universe than they do today, according to astounding new findings from the James Webb Space ...