New simulations suggest binary star systems may be ideal for planet formation, and may produce more gas giants than ...

'Binary stars were once seen as hostile environments for planet formation. What we're finding is that they can actually be ...

An artist's impression shows the "inside out" planetary system around the star LHS 1903. - ESA An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, ...

Planets may actually form more easily around double stars than around single stars like our sun, according to new research ...

What can rocky planets orbiting in the outer parts of a solar system teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as a ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered two gas giant exoplanets forming in a dusty disk around the young star, WISPIT 2. - ESO / C. Lawlor / R. F. van Capelleveen et al. composite image Astronomers are watching ...

Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disc around a young star named WISPIT 2. These observations, and the unique structure of the disc around the star, indicate that the WISPIT 2 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — NASA is funding two new space research projects at the University of Mississippi. Associate chemistry ...

These images, taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows a planetary system being born around the young star WISPIT 2. The star is surrounded by a disc of gas and ...