Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Keep your eye on the ball” is a motto for many athletes—and for astronomers trying to find Earth-threatening space rocks ...

The powerful Webb with its incredible sensitivity observed dust grains the size of bacteria, which will eventually coalesce ...

Astronomers have finally unlocked a crucial piece of the planet formation puzzle by detecting the magnetic fingerprint of a young star’s protoplanetary disk. Using ALMA, researchers observed how dust ...

By tracing the corkscrew wobble of two stars as they move through the sky, the Gaia space mission has discovered one new ...

These are difficult times for New York farmers. And they’re getting older -- 60% of New York’s nearly 58,000 farmers are 55 ...

Blue Origin launched the 29 lunar technology experiments to the edge of space from West Texas. The company later confirmed that roughly two minutes of artificial lunar gravity were achieved by ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Using the Keck Planet Imager and Characterizer (KPIC), astronomers have performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.