About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

The Sun's formation caused temperature differences in the surrounding disk of gas and dust. Inner, hotter regions formed rocky planets from less volatile elements. Outer, colder regions allowed ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted with dust, forming the minerals that now make up about 80% of Bennu. Certain ...

Backscatter electron (BSE), inverse pole figure (IPF) and grain reference orientation deviation (GROD) maps of olivine within NWA 12264. Credit: Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Discovery of oxygen raises new questions about how solar system formed. In this undated photo, Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P. ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 — -- The European Space ...

Billions of years ago, Jupiter’s violent growth transformed the young solar system, smashing icy and rocky bodies together at incredible speeds. These cataclysmic collisions created tiny molten ...

The team at the University of New Hampshire worked on a mission that will help answer questions about how life formed on ...

A new planetary system is forming around the young star HOPS-315. Scientists observed the earliest stages of planet formation around another star. The process involves the cooling and solidifying of ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied ...