The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

A new planet starts its life in a rotating circle of gas and dust, a cradle known as a protostellar disk. My colleagues and I have used computer simulations to show that newborn gas planets in ...

A recent study simulated how such planets might form, and the results suggest that super Jupiters are the result ... were born huge (formed from unusually large clumps of gas and dust in the cloud of ...

Caption This spectacular image from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope is the first clear image of a planet caught in the very act of formation around the dwarf star PDS 70. The ...

Most studies of planetary systems’ early lives have focused on either the newborn star or the planet-forming disk in isolation. Connecting those environments to the eventual planets is hard.

The large gap between the inner and the outer disk has most likely been carved out by one or more newborn planets that orbit the star. The planets themselves have not been detected -- yet.