EMBL’s year-long presidency of the European Intergovernmental Research Organisation forum began on 1 July 2025EMBL’s Interim Director General Peer Bork and Interim Executive Director Ewan Birney will ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

The ALMA and JWST observed the formation of planets around a star beyond the sun for the first time, finding materials that form a planet.

Astronomers have discovered a bright signal, embedded deep in a young disc, that is likely young planet HD 135344B still ...

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

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Using the European Southern Observatory’s accurately named Very Large Telescope and working with researchers internationally, the scientists quickly found signs of a past double detonation.

They observed the thousands of colors and sparkling stars in the spiral galaxy, almost 11 million light-years away, up close. “Galaxies are incredibly complex systems that we are still struggling to ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...