During this clumping together, gaps open up in the protoplanetary disk, which we see as rings around the star. The Atacama ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Speedy Spinning Spheres! Using spheres, cylinders, and straws, the Crew and Dr. Rob learn about inertia, velocity, and conservation of energy due to angular momentum. STEM Challenge: Angular Momentum ...

Andrew Winter's team at Queen Mary University of London analyzed fifteen disks around young stars. They used the ALMA array ...

Astronomers have recently unlocked groundbreaking insights into star formation in some of the galaxy's most isolated regions, thanks to the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) ...

Why do the planets orbit in almost the same plane and direction? It’s not a coincidence—it’s physics at work. In this video, we rewind billions of years to see how a collapsing cloud of gas and dust, ...

Spintronics is an emerging field that leverages the spin, or the intrinsic angular momentum, of electrons. By harnessing this ...

Astronomers have gained insights into star formation by capturing the first spatially resolved detection of protostellar ...