For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

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While its star projector leaves a lot to be desired, the Science Can Solar System Planetary Projector is a fantastic educational tool for kids, with its solar system model, complete with talking ...

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

A low-density, puffy planet orbiting relatively far from a young star in a nearly perpendicular orbit. What's going on?

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

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From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...