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

"This is the first time a simulation has traced the process whereby fine dust grows into giant planets." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...

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

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Main: An illustration of a protoplanetary disk around an infant star. Inset: image of the ...

"This is profoundly different from the composition we see in disks around solar-type stars." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

For this new Picture of the Month feature, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided a fantastic new view of IRAS 04302+2247, a planet-forming disk located about 525 light-years away in ...

Still from a simulation of a forming planetary disk. The images show the rotating inner disk along the top half, and the shadow it casts on the outer disk in the lower half. CREDIT Rebecca Nealon / ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has detected the most expansive protoplanetary disk documented to date, extending across 400 billion miles, approximately 40 times the size of the solar system.