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

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...

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.

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

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

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

The structure of the Solar System. The order of the planets. Natural and artificial satellites close satellite Body that orbits a planet. For example, ...

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.

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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 ...