While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: ...

Uncover the Webb Telescope's fascinating discovery of a 34-million-year-old planet-forming disk around a red star.

Researchers discovered a planet-forming disk that lasted 30 million years. This challenges previous estimates of 10 million ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

The star is estimated to be about 5 million years old and is assumed to be an intermediate object between a low-mass T Tauri star and a Herbig Ae star. The protoplanetary disk of PDS 453 was first ...

Since the 1980s, a strange X-ray emission has puzzled astronomers. At the heart of the Helix Nebula, a dying star may have ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

If there were such a thing as a photo album of the universe, it might include snapshots of pancake-like disks of gas and dust, swirling around newly formed stars across the Milky Way. Known as ...

High-resolution near-infrared light captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows extraordinary new detail ...

She studies the variability signatures produced by young star-disk systems across the wavelength spectrum (ultraviolet, optical, infrared) over different timescales (hours, days, months, and years) to ...