When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A protoplanetary disk of gas and dust around a young star. Dark grooves are being carved out as gas and ice giant planets form. | Credit: LMU/Thomas Zankl, crushed eyes media Researchers may have discovered a hidden ingredient in… Read More »
Apparently, the so-called “great instability” event that caused chaos between planets gas giants Their advance through space until they settled into the orbits we know today occurred between 60 and 100 million years after its birth. solar system. This is the result of careful scientific detective work that establishes a connection to some kind of… Read More »
At the end of 2023, astronomers made a surprising discovery in the Orion Nebula. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the team found 40 double planetary mass objects, none of which were orbiting a star. These are called Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs. In short, this discovery directly challenged both the theories of… Read More »
Astronomers use the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look for planets in the process of forming around baby stars. The powerful space telescope delivered the goods quickly, albeit unexpectedly. These baby planets are forming into swirling clumps of gas and dust called protoplanetary disks, accumulating more mass as they do so. Humanity has imaged… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. Astronomers have discovered three previously unknown moons around Uranus and Neptune, the most distant planets in our solar system. The find includes a moon orbiting Uranus (the first discovery of its kind in more than… Read More »
A tiny moonlet too small to see from Earth may be playing the role of a cosmic sheepdog, shaping thin rings around the distant asteroid Chariklo, according to new computer simulations. Chariklo one centaur – A small-bodied species orbiting the Sun on a stuck path somewhere Jupiter And Neptune. Centaurs are thought to have come… Read More »