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

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

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

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

Scientists find Uranus radiates more heat than once believed, reshaping our understanding of giant planets and guiding NASA’s next mission.

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

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

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