International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have long sought to understand the processes that lead to the birth of planetary systems. Recently, a major ...

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception. Astronomers analyzed the infrared flow of dust and detritus left over from ...