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

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.

A group of international researchers said on Wednesday they witnessed some of the earliest stages of a planet beyond the sun beginning to form.

Astronomers have said they observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the birth of a planetary system around star HOPS-315, providing insights into our own solar system's formation.

Scientists have long theorized that planets, including those in our solar system, form from interstellar dust and gas as it ...

Researchers from Caltech Catch Dwarf Planets Helping Space 'Vampire' For a long time, astronomers have known that over the ...