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. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...

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.

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

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 ...