Found: A Watery Solar System Being Born — and Clues to Earth’s Creation 4 minute read Jeffrey Kluger October 25, 2011 12:00 AM EDT ...

The birth of a new solar system may have been caught on camera. About 1,400 light-years from Earth sits a young sunlike star surrounded by cooling gas and teensy silicate minerals. These mineral ...

The creation of our own solar system was a violent process. As planets were forming some crashed into each other, disturbing orbits and leaving us with giants like Jupiter and Saturn alongside ...

This process, called accretion, is how everything in the solar system – planets, moons, comets and asteroids – came into being. Telescopes can see young solar systems being born.

The newborn planetary system is emerging around Hops-315, a baby star around 1,300 light-years away. In a first, astronomers have observed the very early stages of the creation of a new solar ...