Our solar system was formed about four and a half billion years ago, from a massive cloud of gas and dust which collapsed on ...

In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

Scientists have hypothesized since the 1960s that the sun is a source of ingredients that form water on the moon. When a ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ...

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

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time ... an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute and coauthor of the paper, said in a statement ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but are unlike any in our own solar system ... and Environmental Science at the University ...

However, collecting large samples takes time and resources. Fast science is also associated with gaming the system. As a hypothetical example, an educational scientist might collect data to find ...

Dr. Ryan French a solar physicist, science communicator and author, currently pursuing the mysteries of the Sun at the forefront of modern solar physics research in Boulder, CO — using cutting ...