Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

A detailed study of a cosmic mystery known as "The Accident" has now provided new insight into the formation of clouds on ...

During this clumping together, gaps open up in the protoplanetary disk, which we see as rings around the star. The Atacama ...

At just 25, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin applied quantum physics to a treasure trove of astronomical observations to show that stars are mostly hydrogen and helium.

Professor Susanne Pfalzner from the Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany presented her new findings at the EPSC-DPS2025 joint meeting held in Helsinki: interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS could become ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

Some planets may be soot-rich rather than water-based. Atmosphere studies will be key to understanding their true nature.

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around ...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discovered the composition of stars at the age of 25: hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of almost all other elements. Her discovery in 1925 was one of the earliest attempts ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

And speaking of the break of dawn, that happens nowadays at around 5:15 a.m. local daylight time. And that's the time for ...