The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

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

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The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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A disabled Florida veteran is facing foreclosure after purchasing a solar system he thought was financed through the Florida ...

Simpson and Chen ran mathematical models looking at how differently sized Earth-like worlds would have affected the rest of ...

A NASA satellite that suddenly reappeared after going silent gets credit for the remarkable discovery—a pair of temporary ...

Gov. Josh Green is calling for a renewed push to expand rooftop solar. HPR's Savannah Harriman-Pote speaks with the head of ...

An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.