Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and ...

Astronomers from the Department of Physics at the University of Tokyo discovered a dense disk of material around a young star, which may be a precursor to a planetary system. Their research could ...

Down here on Earth we don't usually notice, but the Sun is frequently ejecting huge masses of plasma into space. These are ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 43 (October 25, 2022), pp. 1-2 (2 pages) M. Maurice, N. Tosi, S ...

The study of young stars like EK Draconis has offered fresh insights into the violent activity of our Sun in its youth. By ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

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