PARIS: Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the earliest stage of planet formation around a distant star, offering ...

The unprecedented observation of planets beginning to form 1,300 light-years away offers vital clues about how Earth and ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...

Observations of HOPS-315 align with theories of how our own solar system began to take shape The James Webb Space Telescope ...

Astronomers have observed the earliest stage of planet formation around a distant young star — for the first time ever. The ...