Hubble reveals the largest planet-forming disk ever seen, Dracula's Chivito, showing a chaotic and uneven environment around ...

Indian astronomers discover 'Alaknanda', an ancient spiral galaxy, using the James Webb Space Telescope, challenging current ...

Indian astronomers using James Webb Space Telescope data have detected complex hydrocarbon molecules in the planet-forming disk of a young star, offering insights into early planet formation ...

The FLAMINGO super simulation maps the universe from its earliest moments but finds galaxies cluster less than cosmological ...

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.

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

T Cha is no ordinary young, Sun-like star. It is surrounded by a circumstellar disk, the dense, rotating structure of gas and ...

Scientists have detected the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding when the universe was less than a billion years old.

This results in a composition that is “unexpectedly chaotic and turbulent.” “These new Hubble images show that planet nurseries can be much more active and chaotic than we expected,” Kristina Monsch, ...

"Hubble has given us a front row seat to the chaotic processes that are shaping disks as they build new planets — processes ...

Hubble identified the largest known protoplanetary disk, revealing a turbulent, chaotic environment with material extending ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...