While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

Understanding how and when Earth, Jupiter, other planets in the Solar System, and numerous exoplanets formed within our ...

Samples of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu, located near Earth, contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the WASP-132 system, finding two new planets that defy previous ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of planetary collision called “kiss-and-capture,” where Pluto and proto-Charon briefly ...

When proto-Charon impacts proto-Pluto ... Perhaps there is a lot of kissing going on in the outer solar system. A large moon produces a large gravitational pull on a planet.

Hot Jupiters are gas giants with masses often many times that of the Jupiter in our solar system. They also orbit ... clouds of gas and dust called proto-planetary disks that whirl around stellar ...

A world-leading designer of space robots says gigantic new rockets being tested by billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are ...