A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Artist's conception of a protoplanetary disc, showing yellowish-gray rings of dust around a central yellow star. Clouds of dust and gas not far from our solar system are giving astronomers a rare ...

When it comes to finding baby, still-forming planets around young stars, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

A fantastic new discovery has given astronomy an unexpected window into the formation of life-precursor molecules in an environment significantly different from our galaxy, the Milky Way. Scientists ...

The Sun generates energy through nuclear fusion, converting some 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second. This ...

L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), is a molecular cloud that harbors a protostar. It resides about 460 light-years from Earth in the ...

Molecules capable of forming the precursors to sugars and amino acids have been detected, for the first time, in the disk of dust and gas whirling around a newborn star. The detection is tentative, ...

Diffuse organic compounds give the molecular plumes in this image their blue shade, though as the James Webb Space Telescope initially captured the gas and dust clouds in infrared, color filters have ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Protostellar jets were detected for the first time using ALMA in the Milky Way’s outer region, showing that star formation works similarly in distant, low-metallicity regions, whereas the chemistry ...