Finding a Saturn-sized world around the young star TWA 7 could pave the way for the Webb space telescope’s direct observation of other exoplanets.

The star is surrounded by a disk where planets may form. Astronomers have spotted a massive young star in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A new planet has been spotted forming around a distant star, carving gaps and spiral arms in its disk, offering astronomers a ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help ...

New images of a young star, ... The image, taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows the star surrounded by an eye-shaped disk of swirling gas and dust.

Scientists observed a young star, called V883 Orionis, ... The star is surrounded by a planet-forming disk of cloud of gas and dust leftover from when the star was born.

For decades it was thought that water was prevalent in the outer reaches of the Solar System early in its history, with comets and asteroids delivering moisture to Earth and the inner planets during ...

Young stars are surrounded by chaos: Clouds of gas, dust and ice swirl about in a so-called protoplanetary disk. And when gravity pulls this material together so that it binds, planets are born ...

Emissions from around the red dwarf star 2MASS J04124068+2438157 indicating a double ring of dust. (Image credit: Long et al, 2023) The team hoped to better understand the disk looping around the ...

The star is surrounded by a disk where planets may form. Astronomers have spotted a massive young star in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers have spotted a massive young star in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The star is surrounded by a disk where planets may form.

New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.