Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond 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 stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a strange new body in a weird orbit at the edge of the solar system, which could be bad news for Planet Nine theories.