Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory, astronomers have observed a young stellar object known as HL Tauri. Results of the observation campaign, presented Feb.

Astronomers have found water vapour in a disc around a young star exactly where planets may be forming. In this image, the new observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

The Necklace Nebula, formed by two doomed stars, glows with bright gas clumps like a cosmic diamond ring. Located 15,000 light-years away in the Sagitta constellation, it shines as a stunning ...

Scientists have discovered a massive amount of water vapor in space, surrounding a young star named HL Tauri, located 450 light-years away. The discovery was made using the Atacama Large ...

What they discovered is that the protoplanetary disk around the baby star HL Tauri has more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined. In fact, the water found in the disk could fill the Earth ...