A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), is challenging the understanding of planetary disk formation around ...
Astronomers have detected the earliest known chemical signatures of planet formation in a disk of gas and dust surrounding ...
What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is 40 million years old and ...
When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the star falls into the black hole. Astronomers study the ...
A new ice disk forming on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook has people excited about the prospect of the city playing host to a natural phenomenon similar to the one that attracted widespread ...
(Nanowerk News) In our 13.8 billion-year-old universe, most galaxies like our Milky Way form gradually, reaching their large mass relatively late. But a new discovery made with the Atacama Large ...
An international team of astronomers led by Satoshi Mayama from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan and Ruobing Dong from Princeton University in New Jersey has made observations ...