The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of calm, pancake-shaped structures of dust and gas, astronomers have now ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young star and shown that the winding motion of the spiral pattern is conducive to planet ...

More planets are changing directions. First, Mercury circled retrograde. This week, Mars is reversing course and Neptune starts spinning forward again. Going retrograde and stationing direct are the ...

York University planetary scientist Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré discusses molten rocky exoplanets: rocky planets so close to ...

Shedding light on the gravity of the situation. Most people do not realize that many of the stars and heavenly bodies they see in the sky no longer exist. In fact, many have ceased to exist for ...

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star L 98-59, 35 light-years from Earth. This discovery means there ...