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For the first time, astronomers spot the beginning of a solar system
Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the signals were coming from, they studied the system with the ALAMA telescope, which is operated by the European Space Agency with international partners in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
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.
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.
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...
Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...
A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...
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