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New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

Astronomers have created a groundbreaking discovery of images showing debris disks in an extensive range of exoplanetary ...

SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

What can star variability—changes in a star's brightness over time—teach astronomers about exoplanet habitability? This is ...

Most of the universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. The majority of everything else is dispersed throughout space ...

A recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society reveals an impressive phenomenon concerning ...

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

In young planetary systems, mutual collisions between asteroids or comets generate large amounts of dust, forming a "debris ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...