A strange, fluffy planet has a group of international scientists puzzled - not only because it's larger than the gargantuan Jupiter but because it's also incredibly light. The celestial body, which ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

Data from the telescope indicated that the incredibly hot and small world was surrounded by a thick layer of gas, likely ...

(Phys.org) -- The first evidence of a planet's destruction by its aging star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The evidence indicates that the missing planet was devoured as ...

Using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a study led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) has confirmed that the ...

The internal compositions of rocky exoplanets correlate with that of their host stars, according to a new study, but not 1:1. This suggests that planet formation processes play a role in defining the ...

The chemistry of planet formation has fascinated researchers for decades because the chemical reservoir in protoplanetary discs -- the dust and gas from which planets form -- directly impacts planet ...

Successful models for Moon formation typically require a relatively low-velocity, oblique impact 1 between the proto-Earth and a planetary embryo of up to a few tenths of an Earth-mass (M ⊕). Such ...