The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

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Here, the 'ice volcano' does not erupt molten rock, but rather 'ice magma' formed from a mixture of water ice, liquid brine, ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions about how our solar system came to be. Tiny shavings from a meteorite ...

Looking back at the history of scientific research, studies on celestial bodies at the edge of the solar system have always ...

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the ...

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...