Throughout cosmic evolution, although dwarf galaxies are individually small, they are numerous and serve as the fundamental ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star ...

Exploring deserts at night is a different kind of experience, with boundless open skies and innumerable stars making for a ...

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

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

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...