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

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 ...

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 ...

2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, according to a new ... Mar. 13, 2025 — Water once existed ...

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 ...

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data obtained ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by ...

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process ... consider our own middle-aged solar system is 4.6 billion years old).

Pagan (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on ... our own middle-aged solar system is 4.6 billion ...

The James Webb Space Telescope directly observed detected carbon dioxide in planets outside of our solar system for the first ... can shed light on planetary formation. Jupiter and Saturn are ...

THE question of the origin of the solar system is one that has been ... amplitude over thousands of vibrations, whereas the formation of a system of nuclei in the way suggested by Moulton would ...