The star WISPIT 2 was first observed using VLT-SPHERE (Very Large Telescope – Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch), a ground-based telescope in northern Chile operated by the ...

WISPIT 2b, a gas giant five times more massive than Jupiter, is the first planet of its kind to be observed growing inside ...

Only 3 million years old, the huge planet is considered a "baby" in space, NASA said. In fact, researchers said it is the equivalent in age to a two-week-old baby. In comparison, Earth, a middle-aged ...

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 at ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.