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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...
A group of international researchers said on Wednesday they witnessed some of the earliest stages of a planet beyond the sun ...
In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star ...
A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.
For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...
"For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our sun." ...
Purdue University’s Merel van ’t Hoff, a co-author, is eager to find more budding planetary systems. By casting a wider net, astronomers can look for similarities and determine which processes might ...
While astronomers have previously seen young discs that contain newborn, massive, Jupiter-like planets, McClure says, “we’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or planetesimals, must ...
The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...
Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...
The July 16 mission expanded Amazon's newly established Project Kuiper internet constellation in low-Earth orbit from 54 satellites to 78.