The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

Although it's smaller than a planet, Chiron could be a natural laboratory for learning about how ring systems form, change, ...

What's special about Chiron's rings is that they're still forming; this marks the first time astronomers have ever seen a ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Chiron is a centaur approximately 200 km in diameter and takes about 50 years to complete a full orbit around the Sun.

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar HOPS-315 in the Orion Molecular Cloud. Guest: Dr ...

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

A new planetary system is forming around the young star HOPS-315. Scientists observed the earliest stages of planet formation around another star. The process involves the cooling and solidifying of ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

Astronomers studying a disk of material circling a still-forming star inside our Galaxy have found a tantalizing result — the inner part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite direction ...

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the ...