Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max ...

Tentative detections of life-linked molecules in a star’s disk suggest planets may form with the ingredients for life already ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The origins of life may be rooted in outer space, according to a new study. Astronomers have discovered signs of complex ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

To the point - First tentative detection of prebiotic molecules in a planet-forming disc: In the young V883 Orionis system, ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

In a star system far, far away—well, about 1,300 light-years from here—a young star just spilled the chemical tea on the origins of life. V883 Orionis, a fiery infant star surrounded by a swirling ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers led by Abubakar Fadul from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ...

Astronomers use readings by JWST and ALMA to detect what they believe to be condensation that will eventually lead to planet formation.

Co-author Dr. Tushar Suhasaria, head of MPIA’s Origins of Life Lab, said: “We recently found ethylene glycol could form by UV ...