Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, ...

Before Earth existed — before the Sun ignited — ancient stars lived out their full lives, forged their elements, and died. A study published July 29 in Science Advances now shows that some of their ...

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 ...

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Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

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 ...

The discovery of a planet that is far too massive for its sun is calling into question what was previously understood about the formation of planets and their solar systems, according to Penn State ...

An image from the ALMA telescope array in Chile shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away from the young star HOPS-315. The blue jet is moving towards Earth, and the red jet is moving away from us.

Before Earth existed — before the Sun ignited — ancient stars lived out their full lives, forged their elements, and died. A study published July 29 in Science Advances now shows that some of their ...