CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.

Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest moments of rocky planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

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.

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Researchers have gained direct insights into the area where rocky planets, such as Earth, originate around young protostars.

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

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 ...