In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

A new analysis estimates that the asteroid belt is steadily losing mass each year, and may not be as permanent a feature of ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

Chinese scientists have identified impact remnants from meteorites in Chang’e-6 lunar samples, shedding light on the origin of water on the moon and offering new insights into material transfer in the ...

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Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...