How did the molecular building blocks for life end up on Earth? One long-standing theory is that they could have been delivered by comets. Now...
A unique stage of planetary system evolution has been imaged by astronomers, showing fast-moving carbon monoxide gas flowing away from a star system...
An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, has made the most detailed image of the ring of dusty...
Astronomers have found the first evidence of comets around a star similar to the sun, providing an opportunity to study what our solar system was...
Latest research has uncovered a massive clump of carbon monoxide in a young solar system. The gas is the result of near constant collisions of icy...
Astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory have detected massive debris discs around two nearby stars hosting low-mass planets. The discovery...