Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), they ...
Binary star systems may help giant planets form more easily by triggering planet formation far from their stars.
Astronomers have finally identified where the Milky Way’s star-making activity fades, uncovering a long-sought boundary in ...
The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes place within a region that extends to a radius of 40,000 light-years from the ...