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

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...

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

Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the ...

“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.

“Transitional millisecond pulsars are cosmic laboratories, helping us understand how neutron stars evolve in binary systems,” ...

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

Using the European Southern Observatory’s accurately named Very Large Telescope and working with researchers internationally, the scientists quickly found signs of a past double detonation.

The composite was created using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, and is comprised of over 100 exposures captured during a 50-hour marathon observation session.

Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, scientists studied the planet's atmosphere from 520 light-years away.

They describe their work, conducted with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), in a forthcoming Astronomy & Astrophysics paper posted on the preprint server arXiv last ...

Church in the southern Syrian province of Sweida, smashed Christian symbols, and set fire to its ceiling and walls.