In this artist’s conception, planets form from the gas and dust in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star. The gas is made up of many different molecules, including hydrogen cyanide and more ...

This is a sketch of the three-dimensional shape of the protoplanetary disk around the star LkCa 15. Only the light reflected from the outer disk (shown in yellow) is seen on the HiCIAO images. The ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has exposed the reality of Dracula's Chivito, a planet-forming disk, according to a study published in The Astrophysical Journal. After observing the disk through Hubble, ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that could change how we understand the birth of planets. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, researchers ...