Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected frozen water and other volatile compounds within a protoplanetary disk 1,300 ...

The presolar nebula that would one day become the solar ... The largest celestial bodies in our solar system that still exist—massive asteroids and minor planets—are thought to be the last ...

The James Webb Space Telescope uncovers frozen water in a distant protoplanetary disk, revealing insights into the origins of ...

The protoplanetary disk, designated as 114-426, is situated in the Orion Nebula, a vast star-forming region approximately ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Jane Huang, an assistant professor of astronomy, grew up in Chicago, but has no strong feelings on whether New York or her ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

NEOWISE team members have unveiled six images from the spacecraft's archives to celebrate the late space telescope's long and ...