Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have captured what may be the biggest planet-forming disk ...

Astronomers exploring a neighbouring galaxy have found evidence of a disc like those which help form stars and planets in our own Milky Way. It was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, ...

When looking up at the sky, you might think galaxies have always looked the way they do today. But a new study from Princeton University and published in the journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

Astronomers have unveiled the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star, a sprawling structure where gas ...

Space experts believe that the 'Dracula' disc could offer new insights into planetary formation, especially in massive ...

Maine’s famous rotating ice disc is back. The disc has begun to form in the Presumpscot River, where it partially formed in 2020 but failed to draw a worldwide audience like in its first appearance in ...

A u local member captured an unusual weather phenomenon in a Susquehanna Valley river.Louis Sauder says he took pictures of dozens of ice discs, or ice circles, in the Conestoga River in East Earl ...

In this idea, thick discs form when a young galaxy is still turbulent and messy. High amounts of gas and fast star formation create chaos, heating the galaxy and puffing up the thick disc. Later, when ...