Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

Ever since the International Astronomical Union recognized Haumea and Makemake as dwarf planets in 2008, University of Maine ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented ...

There are currently no other explanations for the effects that we see, nor for the myriad other P9-induced effects we see on ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

"We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large scale," University of California, Irvine researcher and team leader Te Han ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, an unprecedented snapshot of "time zero," when new worlds begin to gel.

In our solar system, the first solid material to condense near Earth around the sun is found trapped within ancient meteorites – or rocks from space that survive their trip through Earth's atmosphere.