"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

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

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

Astronomers discovered evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation forming 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 ...

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

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

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...