The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

Data captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope showed planets forming around a star in the ...