A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

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The swirling disk around a young star has been found to contain an inventory of seventeen complex organic molecules enough to ...

Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured a detailed snapshot of planetary systems in an era long shrouded in mystery.

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from Seoul National University and other international institutions have been able to answer a question that has puzzled scientists for years about ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, challenging prevailing theories. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...