“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 ...

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

What Kids Will Learn from "Space Mission": Imaginative play about space exploration helps kids learn more about planets, comets, and other phenomena beyond planet Earth. This is one of the cartoons ...

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