Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

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The image above may look similar to a combat scene in an Avengers movie, but it's actually a uniquely lit-up view of the dust and gas around a distant newborn star. Captured by the James Webb Space ...

Cambridge, MA- Every rule has an exception. One rule in astronomy, supported by considerable evidence, states that dust disks around newborn stars disappear in a few million years. Most likely, they ...

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 has revealed two dust disks circling the nearby star Beta Pictoris. The images confirm a decade of scientific speculation that a warp in the young star’s dust disk may ...

"These grains are only one millionth of a meter across." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The image above may look similar to a ...

"It's a mysterious system because it's unlike other circumstellar disks we've looked at." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A joint ...