A rare and dramatic scene unfolds 140 light-years from Earth. A rocky planet, once whole, is now crumbling to dust under the ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future.

Of all the asteroids ... and Earth's atmosphere. Many of these rocky weaklings were created by tidal disruptions, in which close encounters with larger bodies tore large asteroids into smaller ...

These asteroids are a direct window into the building blocks of our solar system and the origins of life. When an object hits Earth’s atmosphere, it has to survive significant pressures and high ...

The components of the water are locked into crystal ... in Earth’s atmosphere with those that successfully reach the surface as meteorites, we can pinpoint which asteroids produce fragments ...

These asteroids are a direct window into the building blocks of our solar system and the origins of life. For a long time, scientists assumed that the Earth’s atmosphere filtered out ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system. Interstellar material has been found within our solar system, but ...