In 1852, an Italian astronomer spotted asteroid 16 Psyche. In 2029, NASA will send a spacecraft to explore its riches. Could this single rock collapse Earth’s metal markets? Or launch a new era of ...

Until now, astronomers have detected fully formed, massive, newborn planets or observed younger protoplanetary discs, but never witnessed the precise moment when small, rocky solids, the first "seeds" ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the initial stages of a solar system's formation around a distant star, HOPS-315.