An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters” reports the discovery of clumps of matter that could become planets around the young star V960 Mon. A team of researchers used the SPHERE instrument mounted on ESO’s VLT and the ALMA radio telescope, both in Chile, to examine the state of what could be a system in formation. The detection of masses estimated to be several times the Earth’s could constitute the first evidence of the formation of planets through the process of gravitational instability.