How do snowmen and physics equal a groundbreaking discovery about the formation of our planet? One Spartan's innovation is showing the way.

The finding, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, offers an explanation based on a ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which astrophysicists at UZH use to investigate how stars, planets and galaxies ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Apr 29, 2025 New discovery changes views on star and planet formation A new study is challenging the understanding of planetary disk formation around young stars. It reveals that the environment plays ...

Image of the young nearby 2MASS1612 system (also known as: RIK113) taken with the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. The image uses near infrared light that was scattered of the dust particles ...

A new study sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. “Materials that go into making planets ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

White dwarfs, the compact remnants of low- to intermediate-mass stars, offer a unique window into the fate of planetary systems. Recent observational and theoretical work has revealed that many white ...

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter.