The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a spectacular new image of the largest and most unusual protoplanetary disk ever ...
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"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect ...
Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...
The upcoming year will offer a blood-red moon, spectacular meteor showers and the first glimpse of the sun’s corona since ...
NASA has confirmed that there are over 6,000 exoplanets floating out there in the galaxy, with another 8,000 exoplanets that ...
Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...
Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...