When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu formed far from the sun, in the cold depths of the outer solar ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a planet-forming disk shockingly rich in carbon dioxide but nearly devoid of water, upending traditional theories of planetary chemistry ...

Iron meteorites are remnants of the metallic cores of the earliest asteroids in our solar system. Iron meteorites contain refractory metals, such as iridium and platinum, that formed near the sun but ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected water vapor in a planetary system that could help scientists answer the question of how Earth got its water. This is the first time that water has ...

James Webb observations detect warm carbon monoxide gas in the inner disk of HD 131488, revealing non-equilibrium conditions and evidence of exocomet-driven gas replenishment near the star.

In a milestone discovery, astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected water ice drifting through a dusty ring of debris surrounding a distant, sunlike star.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected an unusually carbon dioxide rich disk around the young star XUE 10, revealing scarce water vapor where planets may form and challenging ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 8 (February 25, 2020), pp. 4400-4410 (11 pages) Rod and cone photoreceptor outer segment (OS) structural ...

An image of the star-forming region NGC 6357 with the young star XUE 10. Observations with JWST/MIRI reveal a planet-forming disk whose spectrum shows clear detections of four distinct forms of carbon ...

Where do planets come from? The entire process can get complicated. Planetary embryos sometimes run into obstacles to growth that leave them as asteroids or naked planetary cores. But at least one ...