These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.

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

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

Scientists are using the images and data collected by the probe to understand the sun’s impact on Earth and the solar system.

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

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

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

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

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.

But scientists now say that Uranus is actually warmed from the inside, according to a study published in Geophysical Research ...