SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
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New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...
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Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait ...
Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...
Scientists studying samples from the Bennu asteroid located not too far from Earth continue to find clues as to how life ...
Later in December, the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet will get as close to Earth as it ever will. Here's what to know.
Four near-Earth asteroids are set to make close approaches to Earth within a 24-hour period, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed. Scientists stress that all four objects will pass ...
Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...
A new study takes a close look at TRAPPIST-1, a little star roughly 40 light-years from our sun that hosts seven Earth-sized planets.