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

Methane Lakes: The surface features lakes, rivers and seas filled with liquid methane and ethane. The largest lake, Kraken ...

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

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 ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

A group of international researchers said on Wednesday they witnessed some of the earliest stages of a planet beyond the sun ...

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.

NASA and USGS are mapping critical minerals in the American West using airborne sensors to help reduce U.S. reliance on ...

Titan is unique in our solar system: it’s the only world besides Earth known to have stable liquids on its surface.

If it weren't for the new budget, New Horizons could keep exploring the outer reaches of the solar system into the 2030s.