"We will never witness the formation of Earth, but here, around a young star 440 light-years away, we may be watching a ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

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

The new images show the planetary-forming disks, with the inner rims appearing like fluorescent lava lamps floating in space. The disks form in unison with their host stars, and the grains of dust ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image ...

Across the center is a proto-planetary disc, which is dense gas and dust that has the potential to form a planet, roughly the size of the solar system. The star and cloud is only about 100,000 ...

James Webb Space Telescope Snaps Its First Image of a Protoplanetary Disk Astronomers hoped the telescope would be able to see the seeds of exoplanets, but even Webb isn't powerful enough.

Scientists on the hunt for planetary formation fossils reveal unexpected eccentricities in nearby debris disk First radio images of HD 53143 shed new light on the early development of Sun-like systems ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a young Jupiter-like protoplanet that’s supporting an unusual planetary formation theory, according to a new study. The subject of the image is the planet ...

Deep in space, astronomers have witnessed a rare and powerful moment: the birth of planets around a distant baby star. This ...