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Astronomers have spotted heavy water in the disk of a young star for the first time. What’s wild is that this water seems to be older than the star itself, suggesting it came from ancient space clouds ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on ...

"We've often seen the 'baby pictures' of planets forming, but until now, the 'teenage years' have been a missing link." ...

An international team discovered a new planet, WISPIT 2b, orbiting the young star WISPIT 2 in the constellation Aquila. The planet, estimated to be approximately 5 million years old, is a likely gas ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have ...