CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

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

Various stages of planetary formation have already been observed, but not the beginning. That has now changed, thanks to two ...

Researchers have gained direct insights into the area where rocky planets, such as Earth, originate around young protostars.

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.

Astronomers have said they observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...