For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

Astronomers have made an unexpected and groundbreaking discovery in our solar system—a ring system forming around Chiron, a ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...