What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

A comet from elsewhere is currently passing through our Solar System while projecting immense plumes of ice and dust toward ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

Recent scientific discoveries have unearthed evidence of a cataclysmically destroyed planet, fragments of which contributed ...

"The scope of subjects that make up this volume primarily originates from a topical workshop on "Young Star Systems" that took place in April 2016 as part of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics."- ...

Down here on Earth we don't usually notice, but the Sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma into space. These are ...

Meteorites, known as messengers of the Solar System, are critical objects for studying the formation and evolution of planets ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...