NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has scored another first, detecting evidence of water in a planet-forming disc circling another star where at least two terrestrial-class proto-planets seem to be ...

Proto-Earth is the term used to describe the earliest days of our planet, the body from which our pale blue dot evolved. At this stage of its geological evolution, it likely existed only for a ...

A Rice University researcher will discuss images that may show the formation of a planet — or a planetary system — around a distant binary star at the annual meeting of the American Association for ...

In the surroundings of a young star located 444 light years away, a team of astronomers found what may be the precursor to life itself. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in ...

The star system V883 Orionis contains a rare star surrounded by a disk of gas, ice and dust. A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), CC BY Without water, life on Earth could not exist as it ...

Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing. The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

<div>Nasa's Dawn probe has returned the first full-frame images of the asteroid Vesta, and revealed the turbulent landscape of the asteroid belt proto-planet. The ...

“We will never witness the formation of Earth, but here, around a young star 440 light-years away, we may be watching a planet come into existence in real time,” says Francesco Maio, whose research ...

Lars von Trier’s 2011 apocalyptic drama Melancholia (streaming now on Peacock) tells an incredibly personal story with stakes on a cosmic scale. Kirsten Dunst stars as Justine, a woman about to be ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...