Astronomers have found a planet-forming disk that looks like a solar system on steroids. New images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed an enormous, oddly shaped disk of gas and dust ...

Did 29 Cygni b form like a planet, or like a star? Or are the two not quite as distinct as previously believed?

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope imaged for the first time a chaotic and turbulent disk in visible light. It found the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed orbiting a young star with material ...

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS 23077+6707. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed ...

Planets, like those in our solar system, form in a bottom-up process where small bits of rock and ice clump together and grow ...

This month's NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month offers us a two-for-one on brand new stars—with some potential planets thrown in as well. This visual highlights Webb's views ...

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 / ...