The second-largest asteroid in the solar system is Vesta, and it may be a piece of an ancient lost planet. […] ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new ...

The solar system is a collection of celestial objects bound to the sun by gravity. At the center is the sun, a yellow dwarf star that contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Everything else ...

The world's largest solar telescope ... and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg (Germany). The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Göttingen (Germany ...

Despite being 3,400 times the mass of the sun and just 300 light-years away, the hydrogen cloud had gone unnoticed until now.

"The instrument is, so to speak, the heart of the solar telescope, which is now finally beating at its final destination." The world's largest solar ... the surface of our star.

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...