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." ...

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

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 ...

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