planet formation

The JWST Reveals New Things About How Planetary Systems Form

Every second in the Universe, more than 3,000 new stars form as clouds of dust and gas undergo gravitational collapse.…

3 days ago

Astronomers Have Found a Star with a Hot Jupiter and a Cold Super Jupiter in Orbit

Located in the constellation Ursa Major, roughly 300 light-years from Earth, is the Sun-like star HD 118203 (Liesma). In 2006,…

3 weeks ago

ALMA Detects Hallmark “Wiggle” of Gravitational Instability in Planet-Forming Disk

According to Nebula Theory, stars and their systems of planets form when a massive cloud of gas and dust (a…

1 month ago

Webb Joins the Hunt for Protoplanets

We can't understand what we can't clearly see. That fact plagues scientists who study how planets form. Planet formation happens…

7 months ago

This Planet-Forming Disk has More Water Than Earth’s Oceans

Astronomers have detected a large amount of water vapour in the protoplanetary disk around a young star. There's at least…

7 months ago

How We Get Planets from Clumping Dust

Our gleaming Earth, brimming with liquid water and swarming with life, began as all rocky planets do: dust. Somehow, mere…

7 months ago

This Planet is Way Too Big for its Star

Scientists love outliers. Outliers are nature's way of telling us what its boundaries are and where its limits lie. Rather…

10 months ago

JWST Reveals Protoplanetary Disks in a Nearby Star Cluster

The Orion Nebula is a favourite among stargazers, certainly one of mine. It’s a giant stellar nebula out of which,…

11 months ago

JWST Searches for Planets in the Fomalhaut System

The Fomalhaut system is nearby in astronomical terms, and it's also one of the brightest stars in the night sky.…

12 months ago

Seeing the Moment Planets Start to Form

Nature makes few duplicates, and planets are as distinct from one another as snowflakes are. But planets all start out…

1 year ago