The young planetary system of the 23-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris (short: Beta Pic) is regarded as an iconic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four light-years away from Earth, the Alpha Centauri triple-star system has long been a compelling target for scientists to search ...

Astronomers discover Beta Pictoris d, a faint gas giant exoplanet, expanding insights into planet formation in multi-planet ...

Gas giants are large planets mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen. Although these planets have dense cores, they don't have hard surfaces. Jupiter and Saturn are the gas giants in our solar ...

Since the first discovery of planets beyond the solar system in 1995, more than 6,000 exoplanets have been identified. Many of these planets have properties that differ significantly from the eight ...

Astronomers using ALMA have uncovered how gas and dust in planet-forming disks evolve separately an insight that reshapes our understanding of how different types of planets form. While dust lingers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This striking view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and turbulent southern hemisphere was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft as it ...