New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building bodies. The structures often resemble our asteroid and Kuiper belts, hinting ...
Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...
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3I/ATLAS exceeds expectations: it reaches 57 km/s and doubles the speed of other interstellar comets
A study of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals surprising characteristics: traveling at 57 km/s, it challenges ...
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Voyager’s scorching brush with the edge of the solar system
At the far edge of the Solar System, where the Sun’s influence thins into the dark between the stars, a pair of aging spacecraft has stumbled into something unexpectedly fierce. Instead of a gentle ...
The spacecraft had measured a surprisingly strong electron radiation belt during a flyby of Uranus, which had remained a ...
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Farewell, comet 3I/ATLAS! Interstellar visitor heads for the outer solar system after its closest approach to Earth
3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...
A study of the Beta Pictoris Moving Group (BPMG), a cluster of relatively young stars, suggests a high prevalence (20 out of 30 surveyed) of stars possessing Jupiter-mass planets in long-period orbits ...
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Much remains to be known about the chemical composition of small asteroids. Their potential to harbor valuable metals, materials from the early solar system, and the possibility of obtaining a ...
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