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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...