Drifting pebbles deliver water to the inner regions of planet-forming disks How are planets born? Scientists have long proposed that ice-covered pebbles are the seeds of planet formation. These icy solids are thought to drift toward the newborn star from the cold, outer reaches of the disk surround
This illustration conceptualizes the swirling clouds in the atmosphere of exoplanet VHS 1256 b identified by the James Webb Space Telescope. The planet is