Astronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form - quite swift ...

The planet's home star, IRAS 04125+2902, sits just over 520 light-years from Earth, making it quite close in galactic terms.

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Astronomers have identified a young planetary system where the disk is warped, offering a clear view of a planet that is just ...

Madyson Barber, a grad student at the University of North Carolina, was researching young transiting systems in space when ...

"The gas is mainly ejected around the rotation axis of the outer part of the disk rather than around the spin axis of the black hole," the team wrote in their paper. "The disk precession changes ...

First observed in 1936, FU Orionis became a hundred times brighter in months and has remained a unique object of study.

Planetary scientists remain largely unconcerned about these findings, attributing variations in the Earth's spin to a ...

Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery of a neutron star in the Milky Way that rotates at an astonishing 716 times ...

It'd be too hot for them to exist as traditional planetary bodies -they'd become rapidly spinning donuts of molten, vaporized rock and liquid. The terms mantle, atmosphere, and disk would no ...