SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

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Star Wars: Skeleton Crew was imagined as an Amblin-style production that took inspiration from movies like The Goonies and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. Thus far, the family-friendly series has been a ...

A Hidden Planet: The Missing Piece? To solve these puzzles, researchers have proposed the existence of an undiscovered Earth-like planet in the Kuiper Belt. In a recent study, Dr. Patryk Sofia Lykawka ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and unveiled some cosmic surprises along the way. The space observatory focused on ...

Astronomers have long struggled to find young planets hidden inside the thick clouds of gas and dust that swirl around new stars. These swirling clouds—called protoplanetary discs—are the birthplaces ...

Viewers are eager to know why At Attin is a hidden planet in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. The new episode features Crimson Jack and the children forging a partnership to locate their home planet, At ...

Starfield Planet Exploration: Starfield offers a vast galaxy to explore, with over 1,000 planets scattered across dozens of star systems. While many planets seem empty at first glance, taking the time ...

A young star’s strange elliptical ring of dust likely heralds the presence of an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet, says a University of Rochester astronomer in the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal ...