A decade of observations of four planets around the young planetary system V1298 Tau revealed a rare, long-sought missing ...

Some 350 light-years away, the V1298 Tau system features an infant sun-like star, just 23 million years old, orbited by four ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Dr. Jane Huang's research on planet formation in harsh environments, particularly within the Sigma Orionis cluster, offers surprising insights into the universality of planet formation. In a recent ...

The discovery of an extraordinary multi-planet system has demonstrated that so-called "hot Jupiter" planets may not be lonely giants after all. The findings could force scientists to revise their ...

On July 21, 2025, theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) highlighted an exciting discovery made possible by its cutting-edge technology: the detection of a spiral disc around the young star HD 135344B ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

Image of the young nearby 2MASS1612 system (also known as: RIK113) taken with the ESO Very Large Telescope in Chile. The image uses near infrared light that was scattered of the dust particles ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...