As a young star develops, so too does a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around it, ready to birth new planets. Scientists ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

The Hubble Space Telescope brings out the chaotic processes inside Dracula's Chivito, the largest protoplanetary disk ever ...

Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

A massive collision between two asteroid-sized bodies around a nearby star offers a rare look at the violent process of ...

NASA’s Hubble captured images of IRAS 23077+6707, the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing its structure, asymmetry, and potential for forming multiple gas giant planets.

Fomalhaut lies about 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus, aka the Southern Fish, and is one of the ...

Two cosmic collisions near the star Fomalhaut solve the mystery of a disappearing "planet" and show rare planetesimal crashes ...

Hubble spots the largest known planet forming disk, chaotic and lopsided, hiding a young star 1,000 light years away, raising ...

Astronomers have repeatedly observed events near a distant star that mirror processes from the early solar system’s ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered 16 extrasolar planet candidates orbiting a variety of distant stars in the central region of our Milky Way galaxy. The planet bonanza was uncovered during ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an “intense and violent process.” This discovery supports a ...