A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

When it comes to science, a simple observation can upend everything you think you know, such is the case with one star ...

Imagine studying the formation of a star 5 million years in the making, a newborn in the jargon of astronomers, that's tucked away in a "cosmic nursery" light-years away and yielding two growing ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

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

"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered an extraordinary star, SDSS J0715-7334, which may be the most “pristine” object ever ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...