A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

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Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...

The swirling disk around a young star has been found to contain an inventory of seventeen complex organic molecules enough to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a planet-forming disk that almost entirely lacks water, challenging prevailing theories. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our understanding of how planets form. These slight tilts, similar to those seen ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...