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(CNN) — Astronomers have detected water vapor swirling close to a nearby star - indicating that the planets forming around it might someday be able to support life. The young planetary system, known ...

The story of exoplanet PDS 70 c, the focus of the first confirmed image of a newborn planet still forming in our galaxy, becomes curioser and curioser. The story of exoplanet PDS 70 c, the focus of ...

The University of Arizona’s Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme instrument, combined with a six-and-a-half meter ground-based telescope, has imaged protoplanets in sharp detail. By capturing images of the ...

Artistic concept of the PDS 70 disk. JWST observations detected water in the inner disk, where normally terrestrial planets form. Two gas giant planets carved a wide gap in the disk made of gas and ...

New evidence shows the first-ever pictures capturing the birth of a pair of planets orbiting the star PDS 70 are in fact authentic. Using a new infrared pyramid wavefront sensor for adaptive optics ...

Water is essential for life as we know it. However, scientists debate how it reached the Earth and whether the same processes could seed rocky exoplanets orbiting distant stars. New insights may come ...

The star system PDS 70 features a star at its centre, around which the planet PDS 70b is orbiting. On the same orbit astronomers have detected a cloud of debris that could be the building blocks of a ...

Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in a distant star system. The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape. The two ...

Astronomers have captured the sharpest-ever images of infant planets forming around a distant star, revealing unexpected ...