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

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

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.

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.

A newborn planetary system is forming around HOPS-315, a protostar (one that recently formed) that sits some 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion the Hunter. This star isn't in the ...

In 2003, NASA-funded researchers spotted what was then the most distant object discovered in our Solar System. The dwarf planet, named Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, was found over 12.9 ...

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

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

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