This space exploration documentary takes viewers on an imagined voyage across the Milky Way to some of the most extraordinary ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists 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. In a paper ...

As part of the Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics (Astro2020), the Panel on the Interstellar Medium and Star and Planet Formation will identify and articulate the scientific themes that will ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming discs around young stars could become the seeds of giant planets, bypassing a hurdle that theoretical models have ...

Since its discovery in 2018, PDS 70 is one of the two youngest known exoplanetary systems, still surrounded by its parental protoplanetary disk — an environment where planet formation can be studied ...

Theoretical astrophysicists have calculated that the dense dust rings swirling around supermassive black holes could spawn ...

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that extreme environment, scientists have uncovered a rare clue about how planets ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant planetary system that flips a long-standing rule of planet formation on its head. Around the small red dwarf star LHS 1903, scientists expected to find rocky ...

More than 5,500 exoplanets have now been discovered, among which smaller planets seem to be the rule rather than the exception 1. Indeed, many rocky planets have been discovered which we are now ...