The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Researchers were able to observe the creation of the first specks of planet-forming material around a baby star 1,300 light ...

In a groundbreaking discovery beyond Pluto, scientists have detected a small celestial body that could alter our perception ...

A curious, icy and distant object has just been discovered far beyond Pluto. Nicknamed Ammonite, it intrigues astronomers ...

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

PARIS: Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the earliest stage of planet formation around a distant star, offering fresh insight into how our own solar system may have begun. (Wednesday, Jul ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered a new world circling the outer edges of our solar system. So far, there are only four known ...

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