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An artist's rendering of the HR 8799 system
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Probing a Planetary System Like Ours

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The extraordinary sensitivity of the LBT has revealed the architecture of a young stellar system whose structure promises to shed light on how our own solar system formed and help answer questions about the number and locations of Earth-like planets.

Galaxy cluster Abell 3827 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
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First Signs of Self-interacting Dark Matter?

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For the first time dark matter may have been observed interacting with other dark matter in a way other than through the force of gravity.