Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

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

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

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

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

"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...

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

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...