When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

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Although it's smaller than a planet, Chiron could be a natural laboratory for learning about how ring systems form, change, ...

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

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Earth as we know it offers majestic trees, meandering streams, and rolling hills. Yet below the Earth's surface, forces and elements like intense pressure and scalding magma simmer and stew—and make ...

The head of NASA’s planetary science division said the decision in November to delay the launch of VERITAS by three years was the “least of the bad answers” to address problems with the Psyche mission ...

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