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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recent simulations explore how complex organic molecules may form and be delivered to Europa and Ganymede via Jupiter’s circumplanetary disk, providing context for upcoming missions.
New ALMA observations of protoplanetary disks allow us to probe planet formation in other systems, giving us new constraints on planet formation processes. Meanwhile, studies of our own Solar System ...
(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 ...