Finding Extraterrestrial Life? Look for Binary Star Systems, Study Suggests

Medicine & Technology May 24, 2022

An international team of scientists discover new hints that would let us help find extraterrestrial life. Learn more about the theory and the possibility of finding a different life form in space.

Binary Star 980 Light Years Away Discovered with Three Exoplanet Systems in Early Stage

Mar 15, 2022

Planetary groups, like our solar system, forms with just a single parent star. Read on to know about three exoplanet systems forming around two separate stellar bodies.

How Did the Planets of Solar System Align on the Same Plane? Orbit Line-Up Explained 4.5 Billions of Years Ago

Sep 22, 2021

The planets in our solar system is aligned in a flat plane, but how did it ended up that way? The answer lies 4.5 billlion years ago.

Moon-Forming Disk Captured Around Exoplanets Resembling Saturn and Jupiter; PDS 70 System May Support Theories on How Planets and Moons Form

Jul 26, 2021

Astronomy experts discovered a distant system that is comprised of planets resembling Saturn and Jupiter. Both of the planets are in their early formation stage, with one of them having a moon-forming disk.

Elias 2-27 in Gravitational Instability: What is Its Role in Planet Formation?

Jun 18, 2021

Scientists using ALMA discovered the key role gravitational instability plays in planet formation while observing a young star known as Elias 2-27 in the Ophiuchus Molecular Cloud.

Researchers Found Methanol Around The Young Star TW Hydrae That Could Ultimately Lead To The Emergence Of Life

May 26, 2017

Methanol, a key building block for the complex organic compounds that comprise life, has been detected for the first time in the protoplanetary disk of a young, distant star.