How are the most common types of planets made? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

What would it take for Jupiter to ignite and become our second sun? What if Jupiter gained just a little bit more mass during ...

Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

One of the biggest recent surprises in astronomy is the discovery that most stars like the Sun harbor a planet between the ...

Key takeawaysPlanets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune are the most common kind in the galaxy, but because our solar ...

Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between ...

The asteroid, 2025 MN45, completes a full rotation once every 1.88 minutes, meaning it must have a very high strength to keep ...

Astronomers analyzing data from Vera C. Rubin Observatory have discovered the fastest-ever spinning asteroid with a diameter ...

For large Main Belt asteroids, that break-apart point was set at a spin period of about 2.2 hours – a hard limit suggested by ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Roughly 1,000 light-years away from Earth, a gigantic disk of gas and dust is swirling around a young star and giving rise to ...