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New Earths in the making? Astronomers capture glimpse of planets being born around a baby Sun, watch here
In a cosmic first, astronomers have captured the birth of rocky planets around a baby sun-like star 1,370 light-years away. The discovery offers a rare glimpse into how planetary systems like ours begin to form.
Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...
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Birth of a Solar System Witnessed in Spectacular Scientific FirstAround a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.
For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...
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Astronomers discover a cosmic 'fossil' at the edge of our solar system. Is this bad news for 'Planet 9'?Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have discovered a strange new body in a weird orbit at the edge of the solar system, ...
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 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.
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
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