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Astronomers pointed the JWST at young stars to detect planets forming in their disks. It didn't find any, but that's okay.

How long does planet formation take? Maybe not as long as we thought, according to new research.

These gaps and rings in the protoplanetary disks surrounding young stellar objects show that planets may forming sooner than thought.

Polarized (sub)millimetre emission from dust grains in circumstellar disks was initially thought to be because of grains aligned with the magnetic field1,2. However, higher-resolution multi-wavelength observations3–5 and improved models6–10 found that this polarization is dominated by self-scattering at shorter wavelengths (for example, 870 µm) and by grains aligned with something other than magnetic fields at longer wavelengths (for example, 3 mm). Nevertheless, the...

New high-resolution ALMA images show dust polarization in a planet-forming disk. But they still don't show us how the dust forms planets.

Earth's water explained. JWST observations show that ice-covered pebbles drift inward and become part of rocky planets.

Astronomers used the ALMA submillimeter telescope to peer into the birthcloud of planets and track a giant planet by its chemical signature.

Astronomers were surprised when the pointed the powerful JWST at Fomalhaut. They found much more than an asteroid belt.

Researchers discovered a new planet in another solar system, and they did so using Artificial Intelligence.

Researchers used a machine learning model to search for exoplanets with protoplanetary disks, and found one that had previously been missed.