A study examines angular momentum constraints on the formation and orbital evolution of the Moon.

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

Andrew Winter's team at Queen Mary University of London analyzed fifteen disks around young stars. They used the ALMA array to measure Doppler shifts of carbon monoxide. This technique reveals ...

Today, we will explore the enormous gas giants and why they possess such astonishing rotation speeds. Going back about 4.6 ...

Protostellar Disk Formation Regimes: Angular Momentum Conservation versus Magnetic Braking Journal: The Astrophysical Journal Letters Published: 2024-09-09 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad7263 ...

Under the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP), ALMA revealed high-resolution images of 20 nearby protoplanetary disks, showing off a wealth of disk features that provide ...