How can a comet from another star system have a tail pointing toward the Sun? This counter-intuitive phenomenon, observed for ...

Abstract: In this paper, the formation acquisition of multi-agent system with non-holonomic dynamic model of wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) is addressed using model predictive control (MPC). The ...

Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

A disk 40 times the diameter of our solar system has been discovered by the Hubble Telescope, which is likely an image of ...

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many ...

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young ...

However, the mechanism that has been thought to explain how that stardust disperses has now been shown to be flawed, and the team that made the discovery doesn’t have a coherent alternative to offer ...

When the solar system began to form, everything was chaos. A slew of rocky material was smashing together in a maelstrom that ...

Two rare cosmic collisions around the young star Fomalhaut were caught by space telescopes, offering new clues about how planets form.

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

ESA's advanced XMM-Newton telescope discovered a faint X-ray glow from the 3I/ATLAS comet. What is this mysterious light it ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...