Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

But when will the solar system end? And how will it die out? The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system. The solar system consists of eight planets, several ...

For the first time in history, scientists have caught a glimpse of a brand-new solar system just as it begins to form around ...

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 ...

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.