Planets form from the dusty disks surrounding newborn stars
This computer simulation gives scientists hints as to why the solar system looks the way it does.
Mineralogists so far have discovered the following 11 minerals in presolar grains.
Learn the details behind the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest machine and the site of the recent Higgs boson announcement.
Sir Patrick Moore compiled his Caldwell Catalog to fill in the missing bright deep-sky objects from Charles Messier’s famous list.
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