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

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 ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest moments of rocky planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a ...

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

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.

Pillars of hot rock appear to connect continental-size moving blobs at the bottom of Earth's mantle to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface.

The search for habitable exoplanets is a key priority and sits at the pinnacle of exoplanet science. The science community ...

Earth" known as TOI-1846 b has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, challenging existing understandings of planetary formation and the potential for life beyond Earth. Located 154 ...

Astronomers have uncovered major size errors in TESS planet data, suggesting we’ve found fewer Earth-like exoplanets than we believed.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Recent research from Stanford University has revealed a groundbreaking finding about rocky exoplanets that seem inhospitable ...