Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Outside our own solar system, the first moments of planet formation have never been detected, until now. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) said the images are of a "baby star" known as HOPS-315 ...

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the ...

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And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

Astronomers have discovered that the Solar System traversed the Orion star-forming complex, a component of the Radcliffe Wave galactic structure, approximately 14 million years ago. This journey ...