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

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

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

Astronomers said Wednesday they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, ...

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.

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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What if there’s a planet hiding in our solar system, 10 times larger than Earth? While this theory has yet to be confirmed, ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...

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