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For the first time, astronomers spot the beginning of a solar system
Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...
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Birth of a solar system caught ‘on camera’ for first time
The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...
Our solar system has a new mysterious visitor—what is it?
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
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Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We Think
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS isn't a comet, nor an asteroid, it may have been ...
Two meteorites found in the Sahara could be from the solar system’s least studied rocky planet, scientists say
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...
A Solar System Internet? Space Laser Test Moves Us Closer
The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...
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This star offers the earliest peek at the birth of a planetary system like ours
A young sunlike star called HOPS 315 seems to host a swirling disk of gas giving rise to minerals that kick-start the planet formation process.
Scientists watch a solar system being born for the first ever time
Using a powerful telescope, researchers saw the first pieces of material that will go onto form planets. A solar system has ...