On July 1, 2025, a telescope in Chile caught a faint smudge drifting across the sky. Within weeks, astronomers confirmed it ...
These images, taken with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows a planetary system being born around the young star WISPIT 2. The star is surrounded by a disc of gas and ...
Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed rapidly in a chaotic disk at the dawn of the solar system ...