Webb's Near-Infrared Camera view shows at least two or three distinct outflows of gas — jets stretching in different ...

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

Determining when the solar nebula dissipated sets the time for gas-driven planetary migration and for how long giant planets can grow (that is because they grow by accreting gas), says Borlina.

Although IC 5148 is a type of object called a planetary nebula, it has nothing to do with planets (except that the dead star at its center probably ate a few of them) and actually stems from a ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

A rare form of helium may have flooded Earth’s core during the planet’s formation in the hot, early stage of our solar system, according to a study published this week. Measuring that helium ...

PARIS: Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the earliest stage of planet formation around a distant star, offering fresh insight into how our own solar system may have begun. (Wednesday, Jul ...

NOAO scientists, using the Gemini Observatory 8-meter telescope in Chile, have obtained the highest resolution image ever obtained for the planetary nebula NGC 2346.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this ...