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

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

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

Once the star is done forming, what remains of the disk stays there, clumping together to form all the other elements of a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have long believed that planet-forming disks—clouds of gas and dust around young stars—last only about 10 million ...

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

A new study presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes -- planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of Earth and among the most common in our galaxy. Using ...

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 ...