A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Hot Jupiters rank among the strangest planets astronomers have ever found. They are gas giants as massive as Jupiter, yet ...

Discover the new insights into solar system formation through pebble accretion theory and groundbreaking computer simulations. Scientists have long puzzled over how our solar system’s planets formed, ...

Hot Jupiters were once cosmic oddities, but unraveling how they moved so close to their stars has remained a stubborn mystery ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a cosmic divider, separating materials and influencing where planets formed.

A massive survey of 86 stars in the galaxy has revealed a wealth of data and unique insights on the formation of planets. A team of researchers – including University of Galway staff – have shared new ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy – and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. In a paper ...

Recent simulations and research have unveiled a fascinating new insight into the history of the solar system’s terrestrial planets. For years, scientists speculated about how the rocky planets—Earth, ...

Researchers pictured what could be a moon-forming disc in ‘exquisite resolution’, which might shed light on how planets and moons come to be. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

The likely site of a new “gas giant planet” up to several times the mass of Jupiter, has been discovered by an international research team led by University of Galway astronomers. Using the European ...