When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...
A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...
Somewhere at the edge of the solar system a new Earth-sized world might be lurking, dubbed Planet Y. Astronomers have long proposed that there might be hidden planets beyond the Kuiper belt, a region ...
The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.
The solar system is composed of the sun, eight major planets, five dwarf planets, over a hundred moons, and countless comets ...
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida Tech graduate, she leaves with not only a dual degree in planetary science ...
The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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Experiments show amino acids can cling to interstellar dust, survive heating, and reach planets - supporting a cosmic origin ...
Plate tectonics give rise to Earth's mountain ranges, earthquakes and the long-term movement of continents, and may even have provided the right conditions for life on Earth. But as far as we know, no ...
Jeff Bezos envisions gigawatt-scale orbital data centers within 10–20 years, powered by continuous solar energy and space-based cooling, but the concept remains commercially unviable today due to the ...
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will run out of hydrogen at its core. This will make it swell up into a red giant, as it begins to fuse helium instead. In the process, we can say goodbye to Mercury ...