The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

Scientists now think that a mysterious object massive enough to have gravitational interactions with the Solar System’s disk ...

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disk that is surrounded ... the team was able to study the multiwavelength disk appearance of the system. The long-wavelength data from ALMA trace the ...

Captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this celestial spectacle, known as Herbig Haro 30 or HH 30, highlights a ...