JWST has revealed that young planetary systems lose their planet-building gas through a changing mix of powerful jets, molecular winds, and radiation-driven outflows. As the disks age and their gas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple-star system has long been a compelling target for scientists to search ...

An international team of astronomers including researchers at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has unveiled groundbreaking findings about the disks of gas and dust surrounding ...

The young planetary system of the 23-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris (short: Beta Pic) is regarded as an iconic circumstellar dust disk, which hosts at least three giant gas planets. Discovered in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This striking view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it ...

Astronomers just discovered a gas giant on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter — and it’s extremely weird. An exoplanet on a twisted, backwards orbit may offer clues about how hot Jupiters (giant gas ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't have hard surfaces. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants in our solar ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have detected gas on the distant dwarf planet, Makemake. Credit: NASA / ESA / Southwest Research Institute / A. Parker illustration Scientists have ...

Scientists detected the very first exoplanets around a pulsar — a type of rapidly rotating dead star — and because pulsars ...

Rogue planets may be more common than we thought, and they may form alone in the void in the same way stars do, suggests a recent study. We think we know how the universe is structured: Moons orbit ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) It’s the first planet seen forging a path in the gas and dust that birthed it, says astronomer ...