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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

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

"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 stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

Astronomers have observed the earliest stage of planet formation around a distant young star - for the first time ever. The ...