Astronomers have, for the first time, captured what they believe are the very first moments of rocky planet formation around a newborn star. Using advanced observations from NASA’s James Webb Space ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

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KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...

Similar deep-sea volcanoes found on Earth support microbial life that lives inside solid rock without sunlight and oxygen. Some of these microbes, called thermophiles, live at temperatures hot enough ...

In the dark, icy outskirts of our solar system—far beyond Neptune's orbit—astronomers have discovered a cosmic oddball that ...

Plasma waves are a critical element to understanding the many mysteries of the gas giant’s turbulent, magnetically powerful ...

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.

In a recent episode of SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson spoke with Ian Pamerleau, lead author of a new study ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our ...