The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Could a lonely planet wander aimlessly through the restless galaxy change the subtle dance of gravity within our solar system ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

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