In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the first direct evidence that fragments of ‘proto-Earth’—ancient ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, thanks to groundbreaking observations made using theJames Webb Space ...

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 ...

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The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

New experimental work demonstrates that large quantities of water are created as a natural consequence of planet formation.

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.