For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our own—and they have been found by the hundreds throughout the Milky Way, ...

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Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone to date, providing valuable ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

Using new observations with the ALMA telescope array in Chile, researchers have compiled the most precise map of three regions in the Milky Way's ...

New simulation of magnetic turbulence helps scientists study star formation, space weather, and the forces shaping our galaxy ...

Astronomers have developed a groundbreaking computer simulation to explore, in unprecedented detail, magnetism and turbulence in the interstellar medium (ISM) -- the vast ocean of gas and charged ...

Crystalline water ice has been found in a dusty debris disk that orbits a Sun-like star, only 23 million years old, 155 light ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Astronomyreveals an unprecedented look at the turbulent magnetic forces shaping ...