NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed that crystalline water ice exists in the debris disk surrounding HD 181327, a ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

Why doesn’t our solar system have sub-Neptune exoplanets and what can they teach us about planetary formation and evolution?

This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis. The solar system is structured in a roughly flat plane called the ecliptic, with most planets orbiting the sun in the same ...

Scientists and engineers at the University of Nottingham have measured the stiffness of space rock for the first time. Many ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

This discovery offers a unique opportunity to study molecular cloud evolution and star formation conditions. A proposed NASA mission named Eos could revolutionize our understanding of the ...

Water ice shapes the outer regions of our Solar System in profound ways, forming the thick crusts of moons like Europa and ...

It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow ...

A pair of groundbreaking NASA studies, published in Nature, have unveiled new insights into the interiors of the Moon and the ...