In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery ...

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

Data captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope showed planets forming around a star in the ...

Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star, giving us an ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

“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 Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

A baby planet is shrinking from the size of Jupiter with a thick atmosphere to a small, barren world, according to a new ...

This comet, first detected on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS sky survey system, is providing scientists with a rare glimpse into the chemistry and behavior of objects that formed around other stars.

High above us, particles from the Sun hurtle toward Earth, colliding with the upper atmosphere and creating powerful ...