Scientists confirmed that an exoplanet mirrors its star’s chemical makeup, validating a core assumption about how planets ...

A vertical dark band cutting through a bright nebula marks the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star IRAS 04302+2247. Observations of such disks will help astronomers understand how small ...

Explore how the violent birth of the Sun 4.6 billion years ago spun a cloud of dust and gas into a protoplanetary disc, shaping the orbits of every planet, asteroid, and comet in our solar system.

This video demonstrates a Monte Carlo simulation of the electric field produced by a uniformly charged disk. We use random sampling to approximate the field, explore how accuracy improves with more ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty protoplanetary disks that give birth to planets of all kinds. And when a star ...

Astronomers have found a planet-forming disk that looks like a solar system on steroids. New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to new planets. Not only is it the largest planet-forming disk astronomers ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered complex organic molecules, including potential precursors to life's building blocks, in the protoplanetary disc of a young star, V883 Orionis. This finding ...

An exciting new study titled "Soot Planets instead of Water Worlds", by Jie Li and associates, published in August 2025, challenges prevailing assumptions about the nature of many low-density ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

When you see art of our solar system as the planet orbit the sun, you may notice that Earth's orbit has a tilt. It is not a perfect circle. What's more, Earth is not the only planet that displays such ...

Travis County prosecutors said they have “violated no court orders,” in response to allegations of “secret meetings and suppressed evidence” made by defense attorneys for an Austin police officer ...