"The scope of subjects that make up this volume primarily originates from a topical workshop on "Young Star Systems" that took place in April 2016 as part of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics."- ...

Mercury is the innermost and smallest of the eight major planets in our Solar System, orbiting closest to the Sun. Though only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, Mercury endures some of the most ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

How do planetary systems form and evolve? This is what a new and groundbreaking laboratory at the Southwest Research ...

A tiny meteorite is rewriting what scientists thought they knew about the origins of our solar system. New evidence found in shavings from a meteorite known as Northwest Africa 12264 — a 50-gram (1.8 ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Spectroscopic data from NASA’s JWST suggest the disk contains the raw materials for ...

This Collection features original research on the mechanisms driving star formation, the lifecycle of various stellar types, and the complex interactions between stars and their environments. The ...

What can a rocky molten exoplanet with an atmosphere teach astronomers about planetary formation and evolution? This is what ...

In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, ...