Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...

Moons come in many forms. To understand why there are no gas moons, in our solar system at least, it's best to first understand how gas giant planets form. There are two scenarios for gas-giant planet ...

The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. Dec 07, 2024, 05:19am EST Feb 10, 2025, 12:18pm EST This ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many of these planets have properties that differ significantly from the eight ...

When astronomers first cataloged some of the closest orbiting rocky exoplanets, they wrote them off as bare, airless cinders, ...

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 ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

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 ...

Dimitris Stamatellos receives funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar ...

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