Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

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

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Astronomers have gotten one step closer to discovering how our solar system was created. An international research team ...

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

It’s a direct glimpse of the hot region where rocky planets like Earth are born,” said Melissa McClure of Leiden Observatory ...

Astronomers have witnessed the birth of an entirely new star system for the first time. The budding planets are forming ...

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

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 ...

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