A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth ...

A newly discovered warp in the outer Solar System may have been created by a small, rocky world, much closer to the Sun than ...

PoET and ESPRESSO telescopes are new tools that will eliminate stellar noise and detect Earth-like planets around Sun-like ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from outer space—specifically via a collision with a Mars-sized planet billions of ...

Just a few weeks ago, we crossed the significant milestone of 6,000 known exoplanets. The counter keeps getting higher, and there are 8,000 more candidates waiting for confirmation. In the decades ...

They say Mars' mantle has created a 'geological time capsule' of when the planet was first formed billions of years ago. “What we found was quite unexpected ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

However, seismic anomalies detected on Mars by the InSight mission reveal that the mantle is far from smooth and contains rough lumps of ancient fragments up to 4km wide, preserving the planet’s ...