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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.

The Subaru telescope located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawai'i has found a new world within our Solar System, dubbed ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.

This discovery shows the very beginning of planet formation in another solar system. “This system is one of the best that we know to actually probe some of the processes that happened in our solar ...