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 ...

Vega has been the object of many studies. In 1850, it became the first star other than the sun to be photographed and 22 years later it was the target for the first-ever spectrographic image.

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 ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets, as evidenced by the disk and ...

The nearby bright star Vega is surrounded by a surprisingly smooth, 100 billion-mile-wide disk of cosmic dust, confirming that it is not surrounded by any exoplanets, JWST images reveal.

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 ...