The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

The findings could upend our understanding of how alien worlds form. Vega is a blue-tinged star that's around twice as ...

Astronomers have long-wondered if Vega, a star only 25 light-years from Earth, could host exoplanets. A little over a decade ago, astronomers found a large gap between two belts circling Vega ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...

Astronomers have long-wondered if Vega, a star only 25 light-years from Earth, could host exoplanets. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / S. Wolff / K. Su / A. Gáspár composite A little over a ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

"The Hubble and Webb observations together provide so much more detail that they are telling us something completely new about the Vega system that nobody knew before," George Rieke, one of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a remarkably smooth, 'pancake-like' disk of debris surrounding the star Vega, offering new insights into its cosmic environment.

The Milky Way streams through it. Vega is also a past and future “North Star.” Earth’s precession causes the pole stars to change; as it spins on its axis, a slight wobble causes that axis ...