Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

Astronomers spotted a baby star displaying the very first signs of planet formation in the zone surrounding it, similar to ...

"This is an ultra-hot Jupiter, and orbits much closer to its star than any other hot Jupiter ever discovered." ...

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International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Stars and planets are naturally associated with one another. While some planets have gone rogue and are drifting through space, the vast majority are in solar systems, where they're gravitationally ...

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Warning: this article contains mild spoilers for the "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" episode "Hegemony, Part II." At the start of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" season 3, the Enterprise has found ...

Researchers use the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii to find a small object on the outer edge of the Solar System. Nicknamed ...

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The Next Generation is a sci-fi legend at this point, not just because it had cool starships and aliens, but because it made you think about really big questions.