Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

The findings surprised researchers, who used the comet's composition to better understand the environment in which it formed.

Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System - Scientists say comet represents ...

It's an exciting time for the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology. Thanks to cutting-edge observatories, instruments, and new techniques, scientists are getting closer to experimentally ...

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

One year ago, on July 1 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the Solar System. Detected by ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...

Since its discovery in 2018, PDS 70 is one of the two youngest known exoplanetary systems, still surrounded by its parental protoplanetary disk — an environment where planet formation can be studied ...

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