Scientists have watched a solar system being born for the first ever time. Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the ...

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 planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

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

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

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 ...

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

Have you ever wondered how long it would take to travel to each of the planets in our solar system? The distances between ...

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

The pre-retrograde shadow kicks off when Mercury hits the exact degrees and minutes of the sign at which it’ll ultimately go ...