Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Astronomers recently pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope at a familiar target, the bright nearby star Fomalhaut, and saw something that looked like a new world. A compact, reflective speck glimmered ...

Scientists believe the early days of our solar system were, literally, a period of violent chaos. Asteroids, comets, or protoplanets collided from all directions, dust clouds formed and then clumped ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recorded repeated collisions between asteroids in the planetary system surrounding the star Fomalhaut, located approximately 25 light-years from Earth in the ...

Astronomen haben bei Beobachtungen des nahen Sterns Fomalhaut A etwas Neues entdeckt: Rund 20 Jahre nachdem ein Lichtpunkt am Staubring des Sterns scheinbar aus dem Nichts aufleuchtete, leuchtet jetzt ...

This artist’s concept shows the sequence of events leading up to the creation of dust cloud cs2 around the star Fomalhaut. In Panel 1, the star Fomalhaut appears in the top left corner. Two white dots ...

Artist’s Impression of white dwarf WD 1647+375 accreting icy planetary fragments from a Pluto-like world, creating the chemical signature identified in this study. Credit: Snehalata Sahu/University of ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...