What can exozodiacal dust, also called exozodi, teach astronomers about identifying Earth-like exoplanets? This is what a ...

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Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than just dazzling streaks of light as meteors, these ancient fragments are among ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

A newly discovered comet, nicknamed SWAN25F, will be visible in Maryland before sunrise, according to the Planetary Society.

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a fraction of our solar system's 4.6 billion years. Still hot from their violent formation, HR 8799 planets emit large amounts of infrared light that give scientists valuable data on how their ...

It presents the evolution of the solar system through the lens of the planetesimal ... viewers to the fundamental concepts of planetary formation. Email us at [email protected] if you have ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...

The images suggest key giant exoplanets likely formed like Jupiter and Saturn. In a groundbreaking discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first direct images of carbon dioxide ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away that has long been a ...