Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming around a baby sun-like star. They reported Wednesday ...

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

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

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

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

This finding marks the first time a planetary system has been identified at such an early stage in its formation and opens a window to the past of our own solar system. "For the first time, we have ...

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

“The minerals that they’re seeing are similar to some of the very first materials that formed in our solar system,” Schaefer says. The team identified silicon monoxide gas at about 200° Celsius, ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

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

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

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