Gov. Mike Braun and other Indiana officials hosted U.S. Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s visit to the state, including a tour of Purdue university’s nuclear reactor research lab.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

M. McClure et al./Cover Images Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using ...

Astronomers have spotted the birth of a new solar system for the very first time ever. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

McMahon was joined by Gov. Mike Braun, Indiana Secretary of Education Dr. Katie Jenner and Indiana Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources Suzanne Jaworowski.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

It's the earliest stage of planet formation ever seen by scientists. The new planetary system is taking shape around HOPS-315 ...