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 ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

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

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...