As the slightly spinning material in a pre-stellar condensation collapses to form a star, angular momentum conservation shapes it into a circumstellar disk. Planets form from the gas and ...

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Once a black hole forms, its intense gravitational field produces a surface beyond which even light cannot escape, and it appears black to outsiders.  All the details of the complex ...

Cambridge, MA - An international team of scientists has discovered planet formation in a star system younger than 500,000 years old. The find, published today in Nature, is a marked depar...

Dust is found scattered throughout space.  It is composed of fine particles made of silicates, like sand on Earth, or of carbon, and these are often blended with other elements. &nbs...

The solar corona, the hot outer layer of the Sun, has a temperature of over a million degrees Kelvin and powers a wind of charged particles, some of which bombard the Earth producing auro...

Cambridge, MA - Analysis of previously unpublished data from observations of M87* between 2009 and 2013 by scientists at the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has revealed that the crescent s...

Cambridge, MA - Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and th...

About seven and one-half billion years from now our sun will have converted most of its hydrogen fuel into helium through fusion, and then burned most of that helium into carbon and oxyge...

Cambridge, MA - Following extensive observations of stellar winds around cool evolved stars scientists have figured out how planetary nebulae get their mesmerizing shapes. The findings, p...