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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A newborn planetary system is forming around HOPS-315, a protostar (one that recently formed) that sits some 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion the Hunter. This star isn't in the ...

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 ...

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New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

An international research team has witnessed the earliest moments to date of planets beginning to form around a star beyond ...