The observations offer a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an emerging planetary system, said the University of ...

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

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 ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

A group of international researchers said on Wednesday they witnessed some of the earliest stages of a planet beyond the sun ...

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.

Killer whales are one of the most intelligent animals; only humans have a larger brain relative to their body size, according ...

Willson and William Contreras on Saturday became the second pair of brothers in baseball’s modern era to homer in the same inning as opponents.

Catchers Willson and William Contreras became the second pair of brothers to homer in the same inning as opponents in baseball’s modern era ...

Leo sees action as both Mars and Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 move through; plus, spot galaxies and noctilucent clouds in the sky this week.

Watch as the Maclean brothers, speaking from the ‘most remote place on the planet’, show what life on board their ocean rowing boat is really like - including how they give each other hair cuts.