"It's almost unfathomable to imagine what is happening to this planet. The planet's atmosphere simply cannot withstand the ...

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

Estimated to be just 8 million years old, TOI 1227 b is among the youngest exoplanets ever observed, a true "baby" compared ...

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through space, the vast majority are in solar systems, where they're gravitationally ...

Astronomers discovered evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation forming around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

A "baby" planet that astronomers recently observed some 430 light-years from Earth may be the youngest planet ever discovered. Forming an estimated 3 million years ago, the planet may seem old to us.

Astronomers at UNC-Chapel Hill have found one of the youngest known planets in the galaxy. The planet IRAS 04125+2902 b, or TIDYE-1b, is about three million years old, which when compared to Earth ...

This planet, 370 light years from Earth, is a cosmic newborn that formed well after the extinction of the dinosaurs. It’s part of a pair of planetary siblings thought to be in their final stages ...

The planet and its Sun-like star reside roughly 57 light-years from Earth. With new exoplanet discoveries happening at a fast and furious pace for years now, it takes something pretty special to ...