It’s older than the Earth.” In a mere five words, planetary geologist Scott Harris summed up the staggering nature of a ...

“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 ...

These chondrules are considered time capsules from the early solar system, and barred olivine is a rare mineral texture not seen in Earth rocks. The study is published in Science Advances.

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

"The formation of planetary systems is not exclusive to stars but might also work around lonely starless worlds." ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

A research team has, for the first time, successfully replicated the formation of barred olivine—a unique crystalline texture found in chondrules from meteorites and asteroids—using ...