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

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

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

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.

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

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

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

On its record-breaking pass by the Sun late last year, the Johns Hopkins APL-built Parker Solar Probe captured stunning images from within the Sun’s atmosphere. Taken closer to the Sun than we’ve ever ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.