New research on a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu — a small portion of which should arrive in Canada soon — is offering a glimpse into how it came to be. Studies published in Nature Astronomy ...

This revealed two distinct types of SEEs with different origins. One group is connected to solar flares exploding from small regions of the sun, while the other population is connected to larger, more ...

For decades, scientists have imagined planet formation as a calm and orderly process. The picture was simple: young stars surrounded by flat, pancake-like disks of dust and gas, where small particles ...

What was the universe like in the first few hundreds of millions of years after it came into existence? How did the first stars and galaxies form? Those are questions that astronomers now have a ...