A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers' knowledge of planet formation and evolution. Relying on a globe-spanning arsenal of ...

Astronomers have recently detected a colossal object at the edge of our solar system, sparking excitement and curiosity ...

Astronomers have traced the evolution of the solar system back to its cosmic womb, before the sun and planets were born.

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to ...

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution.

On September 4-5, during the Third International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) held in Hefei, Anhui, ...

Michael R. Meyer 1, Lynne A. Hillenbrand 2, Dana Backman 3, Steve Beckwith 4,5, Jeroen Bouwman 6, Tim Brooke 2, John Carpenter 2, Martin Cohen 7, Stephanie Cortes 1, Nathan Crockett 8, Uma Gorti 9, ...

It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second, David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, described of the brief existence of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The third ...

Centuries-old conjecture about formation of the solar system verified Date: September 23, 2020 Source: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Summary: Using a limited set of mathematical equations, a ...