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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Since Galileo first observed them through his telescope in the early 1600s, sunspots have fascinated scientists.

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million ...

The Parker Solar Probe, designed, built, and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, captured the images during ...