Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

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

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

People have long wondered what life was first like on Earth, and if there is life in our solar system beyond our planet.