On July 21, 2025, theEuropean Southern Observatory (ESO) highlighted an exciting discovery made possible by its cutting-edge ...

Complex organic molecules that could be the precursors to the building blocks of life as we know it have been discovered in a disk of gas and dust swirling around an infant star.

Almost everything you could want to know about the closest planet to the Sun, Mercury. Real HD photos and videos taken by the ...

Earth is the only place in the universe scientists known to have organics form of life inside. Now, another planet might be ...

Planets form out of the leftover gas and dust once a star has ignited, and it's believed that the forming planet or planets create a disk around the host star. While astronomers have seen this ...

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same time, challenging current models of our solar system’s evolution.

Incredible images reveal the moment a new planet begins to sculpt spirals of dust and gas around its home star, located over 440 light-years from Earth.

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have looked like billions of years ago.

"We will never witness the formation of Earth, but here, around a young star 440 light-years away, we may be watching a ...

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids.

James Webb Spots Planets Forming Into Solar System in Real Time, Like an Organism's First Cells "For the first time, we can conclusively say that the first steps of planet formation are happening ...

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