In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

Astronomers have discovered the first step in planet birth, finding hitherto unseen structures in 78 planetary disks in the ...

Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...

The gas in these protoplanetary disks disappears rapidly, within just a few million years. Astronomers now have a better picture of this process of planetary evolution than ever before, thanks to ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...

TOI-6894 b, the largest exoplanet relative to its host star yet seen, doesn’t fit the most widely accepted formation model ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

Telling the story of planet formation The story of protoplanetary disks begins when clumps of overdense, cool gas collapse under their own gravity in interstellar molecular clouds, birthing stars.

In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 ...