When astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at a young red star in the constellation Columba, they noticed ...

In a paper published in the Astrophysical Letters Journal, a research team led by Feng Long of the U of A Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, in the College of Science, reports a detailed observation of a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved groundbreaking discoveries in the field of exoplanet studies.

Astronomers have long believed that the swirling disks of gas and dust that form planets around young stars last only about ...

Barnard's Star is a small, dim star of the type that astronomers call red dwarfs. Consequently, even though it is one of the ...

Primordial supernovae got the ball rolling a quick hundred million years or so after the start of the universe.

The celestial squabble between two stars has been going on for thousands of years, and is set to continue for another 1 ...

Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...

"In a sense, protoplanetary disks provide us with baby pictures of planetary systems, including a glimpse of what our solar system may have looked like in its infancy," said Long, the paper's lead ...

Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...