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

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.

Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

Astronomers have gotten one step closer to discovering how our solar system was created. An international research team ...

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

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

PARIS: Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the earliest stage of planet formation around a distant star, offering ...

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

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 ...

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