The first-ever detection of heavy water in a planet-forming disk around a young star offers evidence that the water predates ...

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The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

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The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...