It seems 2025 will have a strong start, too, with a planet parade just a few weeks into the new year. A planet parade is when ...

An ancient exoplanet dated at 12.7 billion years old could have formed over a long period in a giant disk of gas, according ...

Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a ...

"For observational astrophysicists, one widely accepted picture of planet formation was likely too simplified." ...

Previously considered an airless ball, an Earth-sized world orbiting a red dwarf some 40 light-years away may have an ...