This composite radio and optical image provided by researchers in May 2024 shows IRAS 23077, center, a planet-forming disk, ...
In the vast expanse of the cosmos, countless elements and compounds converge in cosmic clouds, offering the basic building blocks needed for the formation of planets. Now, astronomers have stumbled ...
Scientists used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) to obtain a spectrum of the distant galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 in order to accurately measure its redshift and ...
We thought we broadly understood how planets and stars form. But the discovery of dozens of pairs of young planets in a nearby nebula threatens to turn that on its head. They are worlds that ...
ASTRONOMERS have discovered a potentially habitable Earth-like exoplanet, Gliese 12b, situated 40 light years away, according to a recent study. International teams using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet ...
New research indicates the sun's magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought.
Using ESA's Gaia satellite and the MMT Observatory, astronomers have investigated a peculiar stream of stars in our galaxy named Theia 456. Results of the study, published May 21 on the pre-print ...
Noa (Owen Teague) and Raka (Peter Macon) in "Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes." Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Noa actor Owen Teague is happy to talk about Raka the orangutan’s fate in the ...
The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope has revealed some of the saddest parts of our predominantly dark universe. As the agency explains in a press release, its dark matter-hunting deep ...