Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disk around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one ...

Learn how a planet-forming disc around a young star reveals multiple planets taking shape at once.

Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar ...

Astronomers have spotted two giant planets forming around a young star—offering a stunning glimpse of how our Solar System ...

A Galway astronomer has led an international research team that has discovered a new planet, estimated to be five million ...

Typically astronomers find planets of similar ages to the ones in our solar system, but that’s starting to change. In a study ...

A Galway-based student has led researchers to the discovery of a new planet after originally thinking she had spotted a large ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...