Cape Canaveral, Fla. — 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Beyond their scientific value, these tiny satellites may also hold commercial potential. Because they briefly orbit close to ...