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

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.

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 ...

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

A key method of forming planets finally has observational evidence, thanks to a network of radio telescopes in the U.K. that ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...