The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

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

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

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

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

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system.

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

Data captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope showed planets forming around a star in the ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery ...