"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

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 ...

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

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

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own ...

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

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

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

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

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