The giant protoplanetary disk offers clues to how gas and dust organize themselves around a star to form planets.

Have you ever found something unexpected in your hamburger? Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...

A team of astronomers recently discovered something they didn’t predict in a “cosmic hamburger” — one of the biggest ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Webb observations of the Sextans A galaxy reveal how stars in a metal-poor areas create cosmic dust, offering clues about the ...

Instead, this new research suggests that black holes actually act like "cosmic seesaws," switching between these two distinct ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

New research suggests that amino acids, the fundamental components of life, may have arrived on Earth carried by interstellar ...

Space dust provides more than just awe-inspiring pictures like the Pillars of Creation. It can provide the necessary materials to build everything from planets to asteroids. But what it actually looks ...

When we start talking about Earth's origin, there are many theories on the table that have been tossed around for years, with the Big Bang hypothesis often leading the charge. But thanks to the James ...