Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar system's formation and early evolution.

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

The film discusses the formation of the solar system, originating from a vast cloud of gas and dust over 4.5 billion years ago. It highlights the role of comets, which may contain remnants of the ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS 23077+6707. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the fifth planet from the Sun. It is a massive gas giant made mostly of hydrogen and helium, the same elements that form stars.

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...