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These incredible images reveal the exact moment when planets began to form around a star 1,300 light-years from Earth.
A rare magnetic signal revealed lithium on Mercury, showing the planet is still being reshaped by meteoroid strikes.
KQ14, nicknamed "Ammonite", was discovered using the Subaru Telescope and is a highly elliptical object with a perihelion and ...
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...
Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes the Earth at a very high ...
“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.
A recent breakthrough in planetary science reveals the first-ever detection of lithium in Mercury’s exosphere—a result achieved not through traditional particle observation, but through a novel method ...
A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the discovery of just the third known interstellar object to visit our solar ...
Scientists say they have found a mysterious 'tiny world' in our solar system. Apparently, the Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii has uncovered there's a new 380-kilometer world ...