A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...

University of Warwick astronomers have found a new way to estimate the masses of planets hidden inside the dusty disks surrounding young stars.

The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first ...

A team of astronomers, led by University of Warwick in collaboration with researchers at MIT and McMaster, have developed a ...

How do you weigh a planet you can't see? Astronomers may have the answer.

This simulation of a lone super-Earth in a protoplanetary disk takes into account the effects of dust in addition to gas, resulting in a much more realistic picture. After 2,000 orbits, narrow gaps ...

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 / ...