The Hubble Space Telescope brings out the chaotic processes inside Dracula's Chivito, the largest protoplanetary disk ever ...

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.

Nestled 1,000 light-years from Earth, a massive, chaotic disk is offering scientists a unique glimpse into the birthplace of ...

In this animation we fly into a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star. Within the disk, tiny dust grains accumulate layers of ice over thousands of years. These cosmic snowflakes are swept up ...

This is an artist's animation of a protoplanetary disk. Newly formed planets can be seen traveling around the central host star, sweeping their orbits clear of dust and gas. These same ring-link ...

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 ...

What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international ...

Archival ALMA data revealed a large, expanding bubble near the protoplanetary disk of the young star WSB 52, located approximately 441 light-years away. The bubble's formation is hypothesized to ...

What appears to be a cosmic tornado is actually a Herbig-Haro jet. Material is ejected from a young star perpendicular to a protoplanetary disk, thought to be driven by the magnetic fields interacting ...

Many newly formed stars are surrounded by what are called protoplanetary disks, swirling masses of warm dust and gas that can constitute the core of a developing solar system. Proof of the existence ...