Astronomers Observed that They Have Captured the Beginning of Solar System Around Infant Star, HOPS-315 The solar system is the abode of humans. However, very little is known about its origin. A ...

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

The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will ...

Scientists observed the earliest signs of a new solar system forming around HOPS-315, revealing how planets emerge from dust ...

In a cosmic first, scientists watched planet-forming materials begin to solidify around a newborn star, offering a peek into ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the very beginning of planet formation around a star beyond our Solar System.

“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.

In an unprecedented breakthrough, an international team of astronomers has successfully captured, for the first time, the ...

“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our ...

Catching that moment in another star system would show astronomers exactly how planet formation begins — but no one had seen ...

In a cosmic first, astronomers have spotted the earliest signs of rocky planet formation around a young star. The discovery ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...