The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

Astronomers have captured an exceptionally rare view of young planets in mid-transformation, revealing how bloated, giant worlds may shrink into the most common planets in the galaxy. Astronomers have ...

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