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

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

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.

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

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

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

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

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

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

PARIS: Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the earliest stage of planet formation around a distant star, offering ...