Newswise — Scientists may have figured out how dust particles can stick together to form planets, according to a Rutgers co-authored study that may also help to improve industrial processes. In homes, ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) were surprised to discover the earliest phases of ...

Earth and Mars may have formed through very different processes, despite developing as neighbors in the early solar system.

Learn about Gomez's Hamburger, a huge astronomical object that offers an ideal view of the earliest stages of giant planet ...

The side-on perspective is valuable because it gives scientists a clear, cross-sectional look at a planetary nursery.

Do cosmic hamburgers hold the secret ingredients. . .for planets? This one sure does! Astronomers using the Atacama Large ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

Could black holes have planets? New research says yes, they could. New simulations suggest massive planets could form in the outer dusty regions around supermassive black holes. The planets could form ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

Exotic chemical elements in the atmosphere of a dead star hint at the presence of a planet that formed after the star’s death ...

A strange chemical signature in old Hubble observations may point to a planet that formed after its star had already died. Astronomers found unusually high levels of niobium around the white dwarf HS ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have identified a unique planet outside our solar system known as a ...