Scientists have used data from NASA's retired planet-hunting space telescope 'Kepler' to discover that small and large worlds have very different upbringings. The team found that larger planets on non ...

A stunning new image captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) offers a glimpse into the early stages of planet formation. The picture reveals a young star surrounded by a swirling disk of gas and ...

In 2015, a team of researchers from the University of Arizona caught imagery of a planet in the early stages of its formation. To date, scientists have catalogued 5,989 exoplanets, but most of them ...

A gorgeous new image of a star system 5,000 light-years from Earth could finally explain how Jupiter-size planets are born from chaotic fields of gas. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

For only the third time in history a distant alien planet many light-years away from Earth has been photographed as it’s being formed. Researchers at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia this ...