Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have studied 72 young sun-like stars to discover that forming planets is a real race against time.

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a young star known as PDS 453. Results of the new study, published on the ...

A team of experienced experts discusses the significant role of interstellar dust in star and planet formation ...

The rotation of a protoplanetary disk (a disk where planets are being formed) has been observed directly for the very first time by mapping the emissions from the dust grains within it. The disk in ...

Main: An illustration of a protoplanetary disk around an infant star. Inset: image of the star-forming region NGC 6357 with the young star XUE 10 as seen by the JWST. | Credit: (Main) ESO/L. Calçada ...

ALMA, located in the Chilean Atacama desert, is the most powerful telescope for observing the cool Universe — molecular gas and dust. ALMA studies the building blocks of stars, planetary systems, ...

Led by Naman Bajaj of the University of Arizona and coauthored by SETI Institute scientist Uma Gorti, the research examined ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara, The University of Texas at Austin, Yale University and National Taiwan Normal University have found that a fair number of sun-like stars emerge with their rotational ...

The evolution of protoplanetary disks is key to understand how planets form in them. This evolution must be observationally followed during the full ~10 Myr of disk lifetime. The current lack of ...