Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

New research explains how dust links the formation, evolution, and fate of stars and planets, and why future telescopes are needed to observe these processes in detail ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...

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

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

Astronomers may have caught the first stages of planets being born around infant stars. The team discovered previously unseen rings, spirals and other substructures in the swirling, plate-like ...

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.

Many newly formed stars are surrounded by what are called protoplanetary disks, swirling masses of warm dust and gas that can constitute the core of a developing solar system. Proof of the existence ...

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 ...