This month's NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month offers us a two-for-one on brand new stars—with ...

Astronomers typically describe the cosmos with numbers that are, well, astronomical. They measure distances within our galaxy ...

Astronomers have spotted two planets forming around a distant infant star, offering a time capsule into see what the solar ...

Many newly formed stars are surrounded by what are called protoplanetary disks, swirling masses of warm dust and gas that can constitute the core of a developing solar system. Proof of the existence ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist. New research, published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, is set to reshape ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured protoplanetary disks Tau 042021 and Oph 163131. The images reveal what our own ...

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Typically astronomers find planets of similar ages to the ones in our solar system, but that’s starting to change. In a study ...

PASADENA, Calif.–Water is an essential ingredient for forming planets, yet has remained hidden from scientists searching for it in protoplanetary systems, the spinning disks of particles surrounding ...

What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas that surrounds its star, also called a protoplanetary disc? This is what a ...