Learn about the collisions between space rocks that have created huge dust clouds, one of which was previously mistaken for ...

While NASA's James Webb Telescope and other instruments have already spotted abundant water vapor, carbon monoxide and carbon ...

Scientists have been cataloging comet 3I/ATLAS’s journey through the Solar System since July, tracking major milestones as ...

Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own solar system form? Thanks to the European Space Agency's Gaia space ...

Astronomers have been treated to a stunning fireworks display from around a young star called The events, detected in 2004 ...

Astronomers are uncovering distant worlds beyond our solar system using ingenious indirect methods like observing stellar ...

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New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building bodies. The structures often resemble our asteroid and Kuiper belts, hinting ...

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Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

The Kuiper Belt object Altjira was thought to be a binary, but closer analysis suggests that it is highly likely to be a triple system This raises the question of the three-body problem; if Altjira ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...