Astronomers have examined infant planets orbiting a star 370 light-years away, seeing the exomoon forming disks of gas and ...

Researchers can see celestial snapshots with the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever launched, of the star ...

This is particularly puzzling, as a vast majority of meteorites can be traced to some well-known parent body—whether that be ...

However, not all of those celestial bodies survived, and a new analysis of a the meteorite NWA 15915 shows that it likely originated from a world that was similar to Mercury in its composition—but not ...

The smallest disk identified, meanwhile, stretched to just 0.6 AU – closer to the star than the Earth is to the Sun.

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off of them." Astronomers have taken unprecedented images of baby planets in ...