Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Observations of the young HOPS-315 star system show an environment analogous to what our own nascent Solar System would have ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

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

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

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

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and meteoroids. The exact boundaries of the solar system ar ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, a vast cloud of gas and dust called a molecular cloud drifted through the Milky Way. Composed ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

The same charged particles from the Sun’s atmosphere responsible for the northern lights can also damage Earth’s electrical ...