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 ...

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

Cosmologists at Durham University in England made the discovery using a new technique that combines the highest-resolution ...

Researchers may have found our galaxy's missing companions, further bolstering science's most widely accepted cosmological ...

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