Astronomers have photographed for the first time a growing planet embedded in a dark gap of a dusty, multi-ringed disk around a young star -- offering rare evidence of how giant planets form. “Dozens ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days in our Solar ...

For the first time, researchers have dated the formation of Jupiter by studying tiny, bead-like spheres found preserved in meteorites. A study by Japan’s Nagoya University and the Italian National ...

The latest research on asteroid Bennu has revealed its heterogeneous origin and a parent world with flowing water, adding to the evidence that this small and somewhat dangerous rock is extremely ...

Scientists from the Southwest Research Institute have found strong evidence that near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu share a common origin with Polana, a much larger asteroid in the main belt. By ...

The court revived a legal challenge to a 2022 regulation that significantly reduced the compensation utilities paid to owners of home solar systems for the electricity they sent to the grid. By Ivan ...

Scientists at the University of Sharjah have secured a U.S. patent (US12341471B2) for an innovative cooling system designed to enhance the performance of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels. The ...

Astronomers have found a septet of superclouds lying just beyond the solar system. These giant strings of gas — five of which were previously unknown — sit nearly parallel to each other, and most of ...

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The trans-Neptunian object nicknamed Ammonite moves across the sky over several hours in May 2023. Its diameter is estimated to be between about 135 and 235 miles. NAOJ / ASIAA Astronomers have just ...

Image by ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al. Astronomers have spotted a planetary system being conceived from the swirl of gas and dust surrounding a star — giving us an unprecedented, real-time ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in ...