Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

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 have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star, giving us an ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

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

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

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 ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large ...