Based on new simulations, scientists believe that giant gas planets across the universe can often collide and merge into even bigger gas plants — behemoths called "super-Jupiters." In the cosmic ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation. These bright arcs and faint clouds reveal where tiny planet-building ...

Hit-and-run collisions between embryonic planets during a critical period in the early history of the Solar System may account for some previously unexplained properties of planets, asteroids, and ...

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the distance ...

Astronomers still aren't exactly sure how planets get their start. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you want to build a planet, ...

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for ...

From chaos we all began, and to chaos we’ll all return, but not for a very, very long time — 5 billion years or so, more or less. In the journal Nature on Thursday, two French scientists, using arcane ...

When two giant planets collide, an even bigger world may be born. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Based on new simulations, ...