The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

A discovery in V883 Orionis' planet-forming disk suggests Earth's water could have come from ancient interstellar ice that ...

Astronomers have made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery in our solar system—a ring system forming around Chiron, a ...

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, or C/2025 N1, is baffling scientists with its carbon-rich chemistry, early water release, and ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, the young solar system was a swirling cloud of gas and dust that formed the first asteroids ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...

I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some ...

For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...