An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

A star once thought empty was actually hiding a giant planet. New imaging and Gaia data exposed the surprising discovery of a ...

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

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 ...

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

In a stunning twist worthy of Star Wars, scientists have discovered a real-world counterpart to Tatooine — a planet orbiting two stars in a never-before-seen polar configuration. This ...