Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

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The comet 3I/ATLAS, which many still believe to be a form of alien spacecraft, may reveal its origin as it passes behind the ...

Travel back 3.8 billion years to witness the late heavy bombardment and explore the early solar system, from Mercury's scorched, cratered surface to Venus's fleeting oceans, Earth's turbulent but life ...

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

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Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with ...

I ntelligence is usually understood as the ability to use reason to solve problems, skillfully wielding knowledge to achieve ...

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...

(Annerose Hüttl) A young engineer from Chennai in India India overcomes language barriers and new ways of learning – and eventually presents his research at an international conference in Spain.

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...