"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

Astronomers just found a distant space rock called 2020 VN40, orbiting the Sun way out past Neptune. This icy object takes about 164 years to make one lap around the Sun—talk about a long trip! The ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

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

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

“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.

Purdue University’s Merel van ’t Hoff, a co-author, is eager to find more budding planetary systems. By casting a wider net, ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own ...