Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, ...

The secrets of how Earth and other planets are formed may have been revealed after observations of a far-distant solar system. Astronomers have found water vapor in high concentrations in the disc of ...

Astronomers have used the most powerful radio telescopes on Earth to observe a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust believed to be similar to one that circled Jupiter and created its moons. The disk ...

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an unusual after-effect of a planetary system’s evolution. When this star, ...