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By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...
Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...
Astronomers using ALMA have discovered that planet-forming discs are not flat and serene but subtly warped, reshaping our ...
The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...
Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...
During this clumping together, gaps open up in the protoplanetary disk, which we see as rings around the star. The Atacama ...
"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown ...
Most planet-forming disks have warps that can lead to planets on inclined orbits, which could explain where the tilt of Earth's orbit came from.
American space agency NASA announced this week the counter showing the number of confirmed exoplanets has now reached over ...
Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...
CONFIDENCE IN HAPPENING YESTERDAY. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER RECENTLY SAW SOMETHING UNUSUAL DURING HIS RESEARCH OF SPACE, AND IT COULD HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW PLANETS FORM. VLADIMIR LYRA ...
Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, ...