Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

It doesn’t happen often that astronomers manage to find the universe in the process of creating planets. Yet, in a moment as rare as it is revelatory, a global team has directly observed the first ...

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

Astronomers use readings by JWST and ALMA to detect what they believe to be condensation that will eventually lead to planet formation.

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into what our Solar System may have looked like at birth. It’s a stunning replay ...