To mark its third year of highly productive science, astronomers used the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope to scratch ...

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

Astronomers spot signs of planet formation in protoplanetary disks within the closest stellar nursery to Earth.

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

Planets form in disks composed of low-temperature molecular gas and dust, known as protoplanetary disks, found around protostars. Protostars are stars still in the process of forming.

New high-resolution images of protoplanetary disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, created with improved analysis. The resolution is shown by the white ellipse in the lower left of each panel, ...

Meanwhile, Drax and Nebula (Karen Gillan) stayed on Knowhere to build a new society for the children they rescued from the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji). According to Gillan, 2023’s ...

A team led by astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia (U.S.) have, for the first time, robustly detected semi-heavy water ice ...