A free-floating planet drifting through space is being closely followed by scientists who are managing to find out more about ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

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 ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Top: An example of a protoplanetary nebula. – the Egg nebula Bottom left: An example of a planetary nebula – the Helix nebula. Bottom right: An example of a supernova remnant – SN 1006. Because ...

As a young star develops, so too does a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around it, ready to birth new planets.

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 ...

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages of our own solar system. However, most of these discoveries lie within our ...

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Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...