The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve ...

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

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...