Active small bodies—including comets, active asteroids, icy minor planets, and transitional objects—occupy a unique position in planetary science. As ...
The United States’ solar market continues its rapid expansion, with 2024 marking another year of significant growth. Nearly 50 GW of solar capacity was installed — a 21% increase from the previous ...
The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
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What Does a Baby Solar System Really Look Like? Astronomers Reveal the Surprising Truth
Might the first moments of planet formation be more understandable than ever before? Fresh observations suggest that the creation of worlds such as our own is perhaps happening right in front of us, ...
An instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will soon launch on a NASA space mission where it will aim to collect interstellar dust particles hurtling through space at an average of 16 ...
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
Far from the Sun’s heat, orbiting the outer planets of the solar system, are moons with oceans of liquid water beneath their frozen surfaces. Keith Cooper finds out how planetary scientists are ...
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