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Scientists connect the dots between where planets form and what they’re made of. An international collaboration of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has ...

"This is profoundly different from the composition we see in disks around solar-type stars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed abundant hydrocarbons in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young, very-low-mass star – findings that provide novel insights into the ...

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 ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has discovered complex organic ...

About 5 million years ago, the exoplanet PDS 70b was born. This planet, 370 light years from Earth, is a cosmic newborn that formed well after the extinction of the dinosaurs. It’s part of a pair of ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

It is unusual in astronomy to catch a planet in the act of birth, and rarer to watch one creating its own cosmic nursery. But that is exactly what astronomers did with WISPIT 2b a giant, still-forming ...

"For observational astrophysicists, one widely accepted picture of planet formation was likely too simplified." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...