Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients swirling around a young star. The diameter of this colossal disk is roughly 3,300 times the ...

A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel ... and the comets also created from those same clouds swirling around newborn stars. “V883 Orionis is the missing link in this case ...

Around 168,000 years ago, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded in a spectacular Type II supernova. The light from this event reached Earth in early 1987, and the explosion was bright ...