Flying halfway between Earth and the Sun, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft passed directly through an S-shaped magnetic switchback and traced its origins to hot solar surface loops.
Planetary scientists at Tohoku University revealed that Venus’s mysterious lower haze consists of cosmic dust particles left by burning meteorites.
Astronomers have discovered a universal rule governing black hole jet formation, revealing that stellar-mass and supermassive black holes launch powerful radio outflows at the…
A study published in Nature Astronomy reveals that the earliest planetesimals in the solar system contained up to 92% heat-forged chondrules, with only 8–17% volatile-rich matrix…
During the solar system’s first million years, its earliest outer worlds formed from material that was up to 92 percent heat-forged rock, according to a new analysis published in…
Astronomers have solved a long-standing cosmic mystery by discovering that supermassive black holes unleash delayed radio “burps” during two distinct phases of their stellar…
Astronomers tracking interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have revealed that the rare visitor formed in a cold environment far outside our solar system.
A molecular-hydrogen cloud named Eos, 300 light-years from Earth, spans 40 full-Moon widths in the sky, yet went undetected until 2025 due to its CO-dark nature, according to a…
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope have discovered that massive early galaxies formed within 500 million years of the Big Bang contain a…
Mars’s outer moon Deimos owes both its massive 10-kilometre south-polar depression and its strangely smooth, dust-covered terrain to a single 320-metre asteroid impact, according…
A single 320-meter asteroid impact at a 45-degree angle created the southern depression and global dust blanket on Mars’s moon Deimos, according to a study published … Read more