"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

The biggest known cosmic hamburger, a giant protoplanetary disk, is showing signs of planet formation. Scientists are ...

Have you ever seen a cloud made of iron? You may not believe it, but deep inside a nebula that astronomers have studied for ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

A new study published in Nature has revealed a rare glimpse into the early life of four young exoplanets orbiting the star ...

Scientists discover water that's solid and liquid. Superionic ice found in lab could explain Uranus and Neptune's bizarre ...

The Ring Nebula has a mysterious iron bar inside it. Scientists had never seen anything like it before, and the discovery has left them shocked. Where did this iron come from? Could it have been left ...