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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.
Astronomers investigate a potential impact on Saturn after a bright flash was caught on camera. NASA image may show first ...
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 ...
Newly released imagery from NASA shows the Sun's corona in stunning detail after the Parker Solar probe performed its closest ...
Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes the Earth at a very high ...
Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...
“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.
AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...
NASA’s PUNCH mission tracks coronal mass ejections from the Sun to Earth for the first time, offering new insight into space weather.
This artist’s concept depicts one of the solar system’s inner planets slamming into Earth after being nudged on a collision course by a passing star. Such a world-shattering cataclysm is ...