Imagine a journey where you could travel through the entire Solar System at the speed of light. In this video, we explore the ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into ...

They went through a whopping 200,000 images collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), systematically making measurements to account for the light from our solar system in order to hunt for ...

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 ...

Until now, astronomers have detected fully formed, massive, newborn planets or observed younger protoplanetary discs, but ...