The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Webb Telescope is investigating the formation of moons around a massive planet. Astronomers are using the data to study the ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old and ...

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What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the star falls into the black hole. Astronomers study the ...

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An international team of astronomers, led by Dutch scientists, has discovered a region in our Milky Way that contains many nitrogen compounds in the southeast of a butterfly-shaped star formation disk ...

Researchers have discovered the nearest brown dwarf with a disk that could potentially generate new planets, which could help them learn more about planet formation. The findings were presented ...