The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...
The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...
Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune ...
Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas ...
"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...
Astronomers may have finally worked out how planets between the size of Earth and Neptune – which aren't found in our Solar ...
Many of the most interesting bodies in our Solar System aren’t planets, but the moons that orbit them. They have active volcanoes, hydrocarbon oceans, geysers, and moon-wide oceans buried under icy ...
Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...
What seemed like new planets around Fomalhaut were actually expanding dust clouds from violent planetary collisions seen by Hubble.
Archival ALMA data revealed a large, expanding bubble near the protoplanetary disk of the young star WSB 52, located approximately 441 light-years away. The bubble's formation is hypothesized to ...