A team of astronomers has uncovered an unexpectedly complex and dynamic filamentary network within a very-high-velocity cloud ...

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

Purdue University’s Merel van ’t Hoff, a co-author, is eager to find more budding planetary systems. By casting a wider net, ...

Scientists at Durham University in England have identified signs that up to 100 extremely faint galaxies may be orbiting the ...

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

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun.

Researchers were able to observe the creation of the first specks of planet-forming material around a baby star 1,300 light ...

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

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

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 ...

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

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