Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can explode not once, but twice before fading forever.

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that surrounds its young host star. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), they ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star, a peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

Astronomers have spotted centimeter-sized “pebbles” swirling around two infant stars 450 light-years away, revealing the raw ingredients of planets already stretching to Neptune-like orbits ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday that it's an unprecedented snapshot of “time zero” when new worlds ...

Nation & World News Astronomers capture the birth of planets around a baby sun outside our solar system Published: Jul. 16, 2025, 4:45 p.m.

Using the ALMA telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system for the first time. In research published on Wednesday, scientists observed the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar ...

By blocking out the star’s light, the coronagraph allowed astronomers to see faint heat emissions from the planet. Researchers took four hours of data on TWA 7 and compared them to a similar ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary disc—exactly where theory predicted. The direct light detection is what ...