The observations offer a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an emerging planetary system, said the University of ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, astronomers were thrilled after spotting an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever ...

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

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

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.

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

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

Without enough liquid water on the surface, a planet's atmosphere can become choked with carbon dioxide, raising temperatures ...