When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...
The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...
Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.
Astronomers discover a 3-billion-year-old white dwarf, LSPM J0207+3331, actively accumulationplanetary material long after its star’s death, revealing ongoing dynamics in ancient stellar remnants.
I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...
If current extinction trends continue, global shark populations will lose much of their variety, thereby threatening ...
New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...
The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moons, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.
NASA has thrown a lifeline to scientists working on a mission to visit an asteroid that will make an unusually close flyby of ...
TOI-2267 is made up of two small and cool stars. The team confirmed the presence of two exoplanets, and there is strong ...
The study revealed that TOI-2267 has two closely bound stars orbiting each other, and the third planet transits the companion ...