Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star, giving us an ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, ...

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

Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled ...

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.

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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory ...

“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.

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 ...