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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 ...
Cosmic baby steps: For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system
For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...
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Birth of a Solar System Witnessed in Spectacular Scientific First
Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception.
Scientists watch a solar system being born for the first ever time
Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...
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Astronomers discover a cosmic 'fossil' at the edge of our solar system. Is this bad news for 'Planet 9'?
"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today." ...
Astronomers use the colors of trans-Neptunian objects to track an ancient stellar flyby
Trans-Neptunian objects (TNO) are some of our solar system's lesser-known objects. They number in the thousands, and they get ...
Two meteorites found in the Sahara could be from the solar system’s least studied planet, scientists say
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...
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This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours
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.