Planet-disk interaction numerical simulation. The planet excites spiral waves in the disk and later opens gaps. The leftmost panel is the gas distribution in the simulation. The middle two panels show ...

This is a still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk, made by University of Warwick and Stephen Hawking Research Fellow Rebecca Nealon. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top ...

The mystery of a stellar flare a trillion times more powerful than the largest of solar flares may have been solved by a team of scientists who believe a massive young planet is burning up in a ...

New simulations offer new explanation for star's 85-year flare. In this scenario, a young giant planet is burning up very close to its star, suggesting solar systems may have hosted many of such ...

In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, a team of astronomers have observed a massive young star near the center of the Milky Way that has developed mysterious spiral arms. The team used the ...

Still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top half, and the shadow it casts on the outer disk in the lower half. CREDIT Rebecca Nealon / ...

A young, massive planet is orbiting in an unusual place in its star system, and it’s leading researchers to revive a long-debated view of how giant planets can form. “My first reaction was, there’s no ...