The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Until now, astronomers have detected fully formed, massive, newborn planets or observed younger protoplanetary discs, but ...

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...

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 ...

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 ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

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

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the initial stages of a solar system's formation around a distant star, HOPS-315.

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 ...

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

A lone body, making one passage around the Sun for every ten by Neptune, is rewriting the rules of planetary dynamics in the ...