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

“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.

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through space, the vast majority are in solar systems, where they're gravitationally ...

Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope, they observed the creation of the first specks of ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system.

Aliens could spot Earth because of airports such as Heathrow and Gatwick, according to new research. Radar systems used by ...

The University of Manchester-led study proposes potential extraterrestrials could have spotted Earth's airports ...

Humans might not know of any intelligent beings beyond Earth, but if they exist, they might already know about us. New ...

A new study reveals that a common human technology may be quietly broadcasting our presence to alien civilizations—without us ...