Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

Astronomers say they have have detected a radio emission from Beta Pictoris b, an exoplanet 63 light-years from Earth, ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a precious peek into the dawn of our own solar system. It’s an unprecedented ...

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A few ounces of black asteroid rubble have become something like a forensic archive of the early solar system. Since NASA’s ...

How did the first solids that made up planets, moons and asteroids form from the "hot soup" that characterized our solar system's earliest years? New research from Caltech analyzing pieces of a ...

WFIRST will provide imaging and spectroscopic capabilities from 0.6-2.0 µm and will be a potential contemporary and eventual successor to JWST. We present a community-led assessment of the ...

Stars are thought to form within enormous filaments of molecular gas. Regions where one or more of these filaments meet, known as hubs, are where massive stars form. These massive stars, located ...