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

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

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...

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

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

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

Astronomers discover Ammonite, a rare icy object beyond Pluto, challenging Planet Nine theory and offering clues to the solar system’s ancient origins.

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 ...

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.

Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.

Might the first moments of planet formation be more understandable than ever before? Fresh observations suggest that the creation of worlds such as our own is perhaps happening right in front of us, ...