The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is an artist’s impression of a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk in which planets are forming. (Credit: ESO/L.

The comparison of near-IR dust scattered light (SPHERE IRDIS J-band imaging polarimeter; Thalmann et al. 2016) and ALMA millimeter dust rings (the three gray ellipses) in the LkCa 15 disk. The inner ...

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

You win some, you lose some. Earlier this week, observations made by the Webb Space Telescope provided new data that supports what we thought we understood about planet formation. On Thursday, word ...

Since around the time he began his Ph.D. studies in 2008, East Texas A&M University professor and astrophysicist Billy Quarles has been interested in moons. In a recent paper co-authored by Quarles, ...