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

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.

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.

As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to ...

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 ...

Despite Mercury being the closest planet to the Sun, the pictured craters are some of the coldest places in the solar system. Evidence suggests they are filled with frozen water, one of the key ...

All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – here’s how to spot the celestial show. Close. Advertisement.

Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, researchers say. ABC News. Live. Video. Shows. Shop. Log In. Stream on.

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.