Using telescopic observations and “advanced mathematics,” an international team of astronomers has captured new images of planets forming around stars. The images reveal planet formation in a new ...

In the vast cosmos, particles of gas and dust swirl into a disk-shaped cloud, colliding together as they orbit the host star and eventually resulting in the birth of a planet. Scientists have been ...

Using the supersharp radio “vision” of the National Science Foundation’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have made the most precise measurement ever of the distance to a famous ...

Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian’s Submillimeter Array (SMA) radio telescope system clearly reveals the presence of a rotating, molecular disk ...

An international team of astronomers led by Anthony Boccaletti of the Observatoire de Paris has found what may be the first images of a planet being born. Based on observations by the European ...

Scientists operating the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) announced on Wednesday that it had captured the most detailed images ever of two actively forming stars, collectively known as Herbig-Haro 46 ...

Astronomers have captured images of the inner rims of planet-forming disks located hundreds of light years away. These disks of dust and gas, similar in shape to a music record, form around young ...

Astronomers have snapped the most detailed pictures of the birth of an exoplanet yet. Surrounded by a dense cloud of gas and dust, the hatchling world orbits the star AB Aurigae, found 520 light-years ...

Scientists may have just snapped baby photos of an alien Earth. The planet-forming disk around a nearby sunlike star called TW Hydrae sports a gap at about the same distance from the star as Earth ...

SOME animals, such as the earthworrn, have no eyes, and yet they are photoropic either in a positive or negative sens according as tney move towards or away from light. Others, such as planarians, ...