A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Florida's 2045 eclipse will be 2 hours and 42 minutes, beginning at 12:12 p.m. for Indian River and St. Lucie counties and 12 ...

The discovery that inert helium can form bonds with iron may reshape our understanding of Earth’s history. Researchers from ...

The primordial solar nebula was much larger than previously thought, and this may have implications for studying the planet ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Artist rendition of the protosun and the solar nebula. Oxygen isotopes can be altered by ultraviolet light (gold arrows) in this environment as well. Short-lived radiogenic isotopes of aluminum ...

Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

Researchers from Japan and Taiwan reveal for the first time that helium, usually considered chemically inert, can bond with iron under high pressures. They used a laser-heated diamond anvil cell to ...

Hubble doesn't just look at distant nebula and galaxies, but has also observed celestial bodies and events in our own solar ...

It’s a combination object that pairs open cluster NGC 2467 with emission nebula Sharpless 2–311. The magnitude 7.1 cluster appears as little more than a spray of randomly distributed stars ...

The star system consists of a red giant and a white dwarf companion. Crab Nebula: In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used Hubble to ...