When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Artwork depicting how water, both regular and heavy, comes from giant molecular clouds and is ...

Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets ...

Astronomers studying a dim red dwarf star called LHS 1903 have found a four-planet system with an architecture that defies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A surprising study from Stockholm University finds high levels of carbon dioxide—rather than water—in a planet-forming disk, ...

Stars and their planets form when large molecular clouds collapse in on themselves. Gravity pulls the dust and gas into a violent spiral, which flattens out into a structure known as a protoplanetary ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

What can a protoplanetary disk comprised of carbon dioxide teach scientists about a solar system’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to ...

Astronomers have found a planet-forming disk that looks like a solar system on steroids. New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...