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Hubble Reveals Largest Known Planet-Forming Disk, 'Dracula’s Chivito'

An edge-on view 1,000 light-years away reveals visible-light structure that creates a rare laboratory for planet-formation studies.

Hubble Captures Record-Breaking Chaotic Planet-Forming Disk 1,000 Light-Years Away

Hubble Spots Second Debris Cloud at Fomalhaut, Confirming Repeated Planetesimal Collisions

Hubble Catches Two Debris-Cloud Collisions at Fomalhaut, Recasting ‘Fomalhaut b’

NASA’s SPHEREx Releases First Full-Sky Infrared Map in 102 Colors

Brightest Blue Cosmic Flash Linked to Black Hole Tearing Apart a Massive Star, Studies Find

JWST Spots Record-Distant Supernova Tied to March Gamma-Ray Burst

NASA Details Roman Telescope’s Milky Way Map and Dark Energy Void Surveys as Launch Prep Advances

JWST Detects Chemical Traces of 1,000–10,000‑Solar‑Mass First Stars in Galaxy GS 3073

Closest Directly Imaged Planet Around Two Suns Confirmed on a 300-Year Orbit

Record-Long Gamma-Ray Burst and Earliest-Known Supernova Challenge Models of Cosmic Explosions

Scientists Detect Largest Known Rotating Filament in the Cosmic Web

Gravitational-Lens Time Delays Deliver New Hubble Constant, Deepening the Tension

JWST Detects Chemical Fingerprint of Primordial 'Monster Stars' in Early Galaxy

Study Ties Ancient Close Stellar Flyby to a ‘Cosmic Scar’ in the Sun’s Neighborhood

Ribose and First Extraterrestrial Glucose Confirmed in Bennu, Along With Gum-Like Organic and Rare Stardust

NASA Completes Roman Space Telescope Construction as Final Testing Begins

Astronomers Map 50-Million–Light-Year Rotating Cosmic Filament Nearby

Scientists Run First Full-GR Radiation-Transport Simulations of Luminous Black Hole Accretion

JWST Reveals 'Alaknanda,' a Milky Way–Like Spiral 1.5 Billion Years After the Big Bang