The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) DESTINY+ mission will explore the asteroids Phaethon and Apophis; launch is scheduled for 2028. During the flight, the DESTINY+ Dust Analyzer (DDA) will ...

Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, ...

Seeds of rocky planets forming in gas around star Hops-315 is called glimpse of ‘time zero’, when new worlds start to gel Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the ...

Discovery suggests raw ingredients for life are common in the dusty discs out of which planets are born.

When most of us learn about the solar system, it seems like a pretty well-ordered place. Our sun formed first, about five billion years ago, and the planets appeared a little later. As a very general ...

Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...

An image from the ALMA telescope array in Chile shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away from the young star HOPS-315. The blue jet is moving towards Earth, and the red jet is moving away from us.