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 ...

We were astonished to see just how asymmetric this disk is,” says Joshua Bennett Lovell of the Center for Astrophysics. That ...

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

Dracula's Chivito is the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star, located at a distance of 1,000 ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

Dracula's Chivito was detected by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and is located about 1,000 light-years from Earth.

For the first time ever, scientists detect snow-like ice in deep space, surrounding a newborn planetary system and reshaping ...

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.

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

For decades, astronomers have discovered hundreds of protoplanetary disks—structures believed to represent the early stages of our own solar system. However, most of these discoveries lie within our ...

When it comes to observing protoplanetary disks, the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) is probably the champion. ALMA was the first telescope to peer inside the almost inscrutable ...