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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, a peek into the dawn of ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have gotten one step closer to discovering how our solar system was created. An international research team ...

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

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 ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.