Astronomers have discovered a bright signal, embedded deep in a young disc, that is likely young planet HD 135344B still ...

Incredible images reveal the moment a new planet begins to sculpt spirals of dust and gas around its home star, located over 440 light-years from Earth.

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

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System. Using the James Webb Space Telescope and ALMA, researchers detected hot ...

Astronomers studying a rare neutron star system have uncovered a surprising source of powerful X-rays. Using NASA s IXPE telescope and data from other observatories, an international team found that ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery offers a rare vision of how Earth-like worlds may begin.

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

The under construction ESO Extremely Large Telescope in Chile was captured in 2025 and 2023 with the sun rising behind it.

Previously, astronomers have observed giant planets, like Jupiter, forming in the giant discs around young stars. According ...