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 ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest moments of rocky planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a ...

The meteor shower is best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere in the predawn hours, according to NASA, though they are ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

Astronomers have captured a rare glimpse inside HOPS-315, a young star that appears to sit at the center of a nascent version of our own solar system.

A new analysis of exoplanets has shown interstellar contamination from nearby stars could change where to search for ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

The telescope peered into a single “toe bean” of the nebula, uncovering clusters of gas, dust and young stars.

The telescope peered into a single “toe bean” of the nebula, uncovering clusters of gas, dust and young stars.

The mighty James Webb and Hubble space telescopes united to reveal stars being born inside the Small Magellanic Cloud, which ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...