Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...

A strange, sandwich-shaped object is giving astronomers a rare view of the chaotic birthplaces of planets.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, a massive, burger-shaped cloud of dust 1,000 light-years away from Earth. - NASA / ESA / STScI / Kristina Monsch / ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ever seen around a young star; and it looks unexpectedly wild. Using NASA’s ...

"The knowledge of these will ultimately help us understand the formation of the first stars and planets and how our own Milky ...

This artistic impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, evolving planetary system of Fomalhaut. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the dramatic aftermath of two violent ...

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright spot near a ...

IS this what the end of days looks like after the Sun has swallowed Earth up? Fear not, we’ve got some time to go – ...

NEW YORK — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a dense, bright ...