University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

Thanks to JWST, we've learned key details about methanol — a key building block for organic compounds necessary for life — on ...

A groundbreaking discovery has been made by astronomers, who have uncovered a massive molecular cloud located just 300 ...

The Moon's surface is covered by impact craters, ranging from microscopic pits to massive basins over 1,000 kilometers across ...

A recent discovery of a unique exoplanet continues to challenge our understanding of solar system dynamics as a recent study ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...

He said, “The enrichment process we’re seeing in Ophiuchus is consistent with what happened during the formation of the solar system 5 billion ... for the early evolution of planetary systems ...

Astronomers from Swinburne University in Australia and elsewhere have employed the Keck II telescope to investigate the ...

A JWST/DiSCo-TNOs portrait of the primordial Solar System through its trans-Neptunian objects. Nat Astron (2024). Licandro, J., Pinilla-Alonso, N., Holler, B.J. et al. Thermal evolution of trans ...

Eos is approximately 300 light-years from Earth, situated at the boundary of the Local Bubble, a vast, gas-filled region that ...