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 ...

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

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.

Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

A new astronomical study suggests that Earth could one day be ejected from the solar system, not by the aging of the Sun, but by the unpredictable trajectory of a rogue star.While such a scenario ...

The Sun and planets of our solar system all formed from the same cloud of gas and dust, but the planets’ compositions vary with mass and distance from our star.