{"id":879056,"date":"2026-09-04T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879056\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T00:18:09","slug":"exocomets-found-delivering-water-in-young-solar-system-pds-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/879056\/","title":{"rendered":"Exocomets Found Delivering Water in Young Solar System PDS 70"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are comets responsible for transporting water to planets? This is what a recent study<\/a> published in Nature Communications hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the role of comets and water transportation in the formation and evolution of young planets. This study has the potential to help scientists better understand planetary formation and evolution and what this could mean in the search for life beyond Earth.<\/p>\n

For the study, the researchers examined data obtained from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope involving the young exoplanetary system called PDS 70, which is located about 370 light-years from Earth. The goal of this study was to ascertain the origin of water, which researchers in prior studied have interpreted as a potential comet since the gas appeared and disappeared over several observations.<\/p>\n

In the end, the researchers confirmed the existence of sodium passing on front of the host star, which was confirmed to be concentrated on a specific region while being partially spread out across the front of the star. One of the concluding hypotheses was that this could be a comet delivering water to the inner parts of that solar system, which the team notes could help explain how water is transported from the outer solar system to planets in the inner solar system.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur study suggests that comets may be responsible for transporting water to the inner parts of the planetary system, where planets can form, in the same way as in the early Solar System,\u201d said Dr. Aline Novais<\/a>, who is a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University and lead author of the study.<\/p>\n

What new insights into exocomets and how they transport water to young planets will researchers make in the coming years and decades? Only time will tell, and this is why we science!<\/p>\n

As always, keep doing science & keep looking up!<\/p>\n

Sources: Nature Communications<\/a>, EurekAlert!<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Featured Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are comets responsible for transporting water to planets? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":879057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,128],"class_list":["post-879056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/879057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}