What lies beneath Jupiter's violent clouds? This video uncovers the planet's deepest secret: a vast ocean of liquid metallic ...

How do planets like Earth and Jupiter come into existence? Astronomers are beginning to answer that question thanks to new ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth.

The baby planet has created a gap in the ring of material as it grows into a fully-realized planet. A baby planet has been spotted nestled inside a ring around its young parent star, offering a ...

Austin (KXAN) — A tiny baby planet is making waves in the science community. Named WISPIT 2b, the growing planet is the first planet of its kind to be basically photographed growing inside its star’s ...

Gas giant Jupiter is so large it could swallow up over 1,300 Earths and still have some room to spare. If you want that in even more numbers, that would be a diameter at the equator of close to 90,000 ...

No audio available for this content. Developed by the European Union, Galileo is an independent, global, satellite-based navigation system that provides a range of services. Among its most significant ...

Astronomers have spotted telltale signs of a new planet actively growing out of the fog of gas and dust that surrounds it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

WISPIT 2b was an unexpected discovery made during a five-year research project carried out by an international team of astronomers at Leiden University, the University of Arizona. The find represents ...

The find represents the first clear detection of a baby planet taking shape within a disc of dust and gas with multiple rings. The ground-breaking discovery was made using European Southern ...