In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are rich with clues about how worlds like Earth come to be. Until now, scientists ...

The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. New research, ...

Visualisation of the warped disc around the young star MWC 758, with warping exaggerated by a factor four to make it visible. Both panels show properties of the disc inferred from CO emission. On the ...