NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has done it again, delivering jaw-dropping images that challenge what we thought we knew about how planets are born. This time, the telescope turned its gaze toward the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy ...
Astronomers have captured images of a Jupiter-type protoplanet in the making using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, which they characterize as a violent and intensive process. “Disk instability” has been a long-debated notion about how worlds like Jupiter develop. A newborn ...
The six-exoplanet system (TOI-178) recently discovered might be the biggest challenge astronomers have met. Five of the exoplanets are in an odd yet unique rhythm around their star, but that’s not all. According to new observations, astronomers believe that the ...