Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

Trans-Neptunian objects as small as 3 miles across have been directly characterized for the first time, as Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes surveyed 27 icy relics beyond Neptune, finding these ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's best images of the planets and other celestial bodies of our Solar System ...

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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that some of the smallest objects beyond Neptune still preserve the conditions of the early solar system, offering a new view ...

WFIRST will provide imaging and spectroscopic capabilities from 0.6-2.0 µm and will be a potential contemporary and eventual successor to JWST. We present a community-led assessment of the ...

Stars are thought to form within enormous filaments of molecular gas. Regions where one or more of these filaments meet, known as hubs, are where massive stars form. These massive stars, located ...

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Way back in time, about 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun and planets were busily forming nestled inside a cloud of gas and dust. Not far away, a supernova exploded, threatening to tear everything apart.

A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observation ...