"These early quasars date back to the universe's infancy." ...

"No single telescope tells the whole story. Discoveries build over time, and new observatories expand on the foundations laid ...

It implies or requires that the angrite parent body had to be big, but the question is, where is it now?” CU Boulder ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

Approximately 13.8 billion years. This is quite a large number, and yet at the same time, it is incredibly difficult for us ...

Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion years old—about three times the age of the solar system ...

Space.com ALMA telescope captures the formation of a new solar system Posted: June 24, 2026 | Last updated: June 24, 2026 For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system ...

An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, ...

Four-telescope astronomical observatory is at the heart of the first space exploration to be led by the country ...

Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago reveals hidden Solar System history through tiny mineral grains. The discovery shows asteroid bombardment continued long after the Late Heavy Bombardment period.

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The ...

But by studying a huge cache of meteorites that have fallen to Earth over the years, scientists are finding intriguing clues ...