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Protoplanetary Disks

ALMA’s ARKS Survey Delivers Sharpest-Ever Map of 24 ExoKuiper Belts

The public release creates a benchmark dataset to test competing explanations for debris-belt structure.

Astronomers Make First Direct Mass Measurement of a Rogue Planet

Saturn-Mass Rogue Planet Gets First Direct Mass and Distance Measurement

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Tied to New Planet 'Seeding' Hypothesis

Telescopes Witness Key Stages of Planet Formation in Three Young Star Systems

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

First Solids of Planet Formation Observed Around Young Star HOPS-315

James Webb Space Telescope Captures First Exoplanet by Direct Imaging