Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...
We thought we understood planets, but the planetary disk chemistry of far-away XUE 10 is completely changing our conception ...
Think of it this way: only around 10,000 decently sized meteorites slam into Earth per year. Meanwhile, the planet is ...
Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining ...
The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...
New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe’s first stars might not have been ordinary fusion ...
When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...
The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.
Space scientists look back on three decades of exoplanet discoveries—from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...
According to Alfred Nobel's will, the Nobel Prize in Physics was to go to "the person who shall have made the most important discovery or invention within the field of physics." The prize has been ...
On October 6 1995, at a scientific meeting in Florence, Italy, two Swiss astronomers made an announcement that would transform our understanding of the universe beyond our solar system. Michel Mayor ...
About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.
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