For decades, researchers have been studying the formation of rings around planets like Saturn in an attempt to understand what criteria have to be met in order to make and sustain these rings. It was ...

Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...

In an unprecedented celestial event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured the dramatic aftermath of colliding space ...

Historically, lithium has been produced using two approaches: hard rock mining of spodumene deposits, as seen at the ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought materials from the surface of the asteroid Bennu (pictured) safely back to Earth. The returned samples were then curated carefully, to prevent the ...

Scientists watching the nearby Fomalhaut star system have directly seen two protoplanets smash together for the first time. Then, they saw it happen again.

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life through our galaxy. That’s ...

Across science and culture, some of the most revealing stories begin with a simple problem: something appears where it should ...

The intense winds of giant stars, which carry the essential elements for life throughout the galaxy, are not solely driven by ...

The giant planets weren't always where we find them today. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune formed in a more compact ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...