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

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

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 ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

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

Our understanding of the universe begins with the Big Bang, a moment in time where the universe began expanding into what we ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could validate long-held ...

“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 ...

The 5,000-year-old tomb was once thought to be the preserve of high society but new research suggests that's not the case.

Since at least the time of the ancient Egyptians, people across the world have gazed up in awe at Betelgeuse, one of the ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...