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Planet Formation

Protoplanetary Disks WISPIT 2b TOI-6894b LHS 1903 Dust Clouds Gas Giants Accretion Processes Sub-Neptune Planets Chemical Goldilocks Zone Uranus' Influence

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Youngest Known Exoplanet Confirmed Inside Its Birth Disk

A peer-reviewed study reports a gas giant under one million years old at roughly 55 AU that is still accreting, challenging planet-formation timescales.

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Hubble Spots Second Debris Cloud at Fomalhaut, Confirming Repeated Planetesimal Collisions

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SPHERE Survey Delivers 51 Resolved Debris Disks, Revealing Planet-Shaped Rings and Prime Follow-Up Targets

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Lab Experiments Show Sub‑Neptunes Can Make Their Own Water

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Hubble Spots White Dwarf Devouring Icy, Nitrogen-Rich Exo‑Pluto Fragment

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NASA’s Confirmed Exoplanets Top 6,000

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Astronomers Directly Image a Forming Giant Planet Inside a Multi‑Ring Disk Gap

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Astronomers Directly Image Newborn Planet in Multi-Ringed Disk in First Clear Case

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VLT Directly Images Infant Gas Giant ‘WISPIT 2b’ Inside Planet‑Building Disk

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Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

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Gaia and ALMA Data Confirm Giant Planet in Formation Around MP Mus

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James Webb Directly Images Young Saturn-Mass Exoplanet in Disk

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Webb Reveals Silicate Clouds and Moon-Forming Disk in YSES-1 System

Planet Formation

Youngest Known Exoplanet Confirmed Inside Its Birth Disk

Astronomers Confirm Elias 2-24 b as Youngest Known Planet

NASA Cancels Rescue of Aging Swift Observatory After Servicer Failures

Second Infant Planet Confirmed Forming Around Nearby Star WISPIT 2

Study Ties Planetary Habitability to a Narrow Oxygen Window in Core Formation

Rocky Outer Planet in LHS 1903 System Upends Planet-Formation Models

JWST Spots Sulfur in HR 8799 c, Strengthening Case for Core Accretion

Nature Study Weighs Four Young V1298 Tau Planets, Revealing Ultra‑Low Densities

Hubble Spots Second Debris Cloud at Fomalhaut, Confirming Repeated Planetesimal Collisions

SPHERE Survey Delivers 51 Resolved Debris Disks, Revealing Planet-Shaped Rings and Prime Follow-Up Targets

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Planet Formation

Lab Experiments Show Sub‑Neptunes Can Make Their Own Water

Hubble Spots White Dwarf Devouring Icy, Nitrogen-Rich Exo‑Pluto Fragment

NASA’s Confirmed Exoplanets Top 6,000

Astronomers Directly Image a Forming Giant Planet Inside a Multi‑Ring Disk Gap

Astronomers Directly Image Newborn Planet in Multi-Ringed Disk in First Clear Case

VLT Directly Images Infant Gas Giant ‘WISPIT 2b’ Inside Planet‑Building Disk

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

Gaia and ALMA Data Confirm Giant Planet in Formation Around MP Mus

James Webb Directly Images Young Saturn-Mass Exoplanet in Disk

Webb Reveals Silicate Clouds and Moon-Forming Disk in YSES-1 System

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Planet Formation