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A comet from elsewhere is currently passing through our Solar System while projecting immense plumes of ice and dust toward ...

For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that govern it. In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether or ...

The cosmos never ceases to amaze, and the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is the latest celestial body to capture the attention of scientists and enthusiasts alike. As it made its closest approach to the ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

"The scope of subjects that make up this volume primarily originates from a topical workshop on "Young Star Systems" that took place in April 2016 as part of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics."- ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...

Meteorites, known as messengers of the Solar System, are critical objects for studying the formation and evolution of planets ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

The Saturn System has been studied in detail by the Cassini-Huygens Mission. A major thrust of those investigations has been to understand how Saturn formed and evolved and to place Saturn in the ...