And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

Today, let's talk about something super mysterious! A detector has discovered an icy comet in the Kuiper Belt, and this has ...

The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the discovery of subtle warps spotted in many planet-forming disks around young stars.

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 ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered something about the interstellar comet that's never been observed before, ...

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” – ...

The study revealed that liquid water still existed on Ryugu one billion years after its parent body formed. This conclusion ...

The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.

Scientists have found that liquid water flowed on the surface of the asteroid that birthed the near-Earth object (NEO) Ryugu much later than it was expected, indicating impacts might've melted ice, ...