Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

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

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.

Scientists have watched another solar system being born for the first ever time. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory ...

The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...