The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Samples from Ryugu, a small, near-Earth asteroid, preserve natural remanent magnetization (NRM) from the early history of the solar system. However, despite multiple studies, there is currently no ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like Arrokoth can form directly during the gravitational collapse of a dense ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

An artist's impression of the planetary system surrounding LHS 1903, a small red dwarf star cooler and dimmer than our Sun. (European Space Agency) (CN) — For decades, astronomers thought they had ...

The infrared space telescope also detected water vapor, carbon dioxide and organic compounds streaming from the departing comet two months after it made its closest approach to the sun. When you ...

How do baby planets form around young stars and what aspects of our Solar System’s formative history make it so distinct? Are liquid water, plate tectonics, and magnetic fields are necessary for a ...

Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...

In 2025 — for the first year ever — solar arrays provided more electricity to Texas’ main power grid than coal-fired power plants. Solar farms contributed 67,800 gigawatt-hours of electricity from ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo missions—and they’re shaking up the search for life beyond Earth. The OSIRIS-REx ...

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