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

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...

Astronomers discovered evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation forming around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest stages of planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a rare glimpse into the birth of a solar system. The discovery provides the first conclusive ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Scientists believe that a “third star” might be the secret accomplice helping the vampire stars in space to feed on unaware victims and explode. The research with further details was published in the ...

A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

The researchers compared the planetary and system characteristics of GJ 12 b and its M dwarf to the TRAPPIST-1 system, the latter of which contains seven Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting an M dwarf ...