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

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

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

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Ba-by stars, doo doo doo doo doo doo.

The Hubble Space Telescope could re-enter Earth earlier than predicted and perish in the next 3 years.

Hubble identified the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing a turbulent, chaotic environment with material extending above and below the disk, offering new insight into planet formation.