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

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.

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

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

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile has captured interstellar cloud Lupus 3. A pair of young stars can bee ...

"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...

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

Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has helped provide a snapshot of the formation of a planetary system ...