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

These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...

Astronomers have gotten one step closer to discovering how our solar system was created. An international research team ...

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 ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

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

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

Maramureș International Airport in northern Romania has submitted a funding request for the implementation of a renewable energy project aimed at constructing a 2.5 MW photovoltaic park and an ...

Eruptions of plasma piling atop one another, solar wind streaming out in exquisite detail — the closest-ever images of our ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...