Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation ...

Dwarf planet 2023 KQ14, Ammonite, has a stable orbit that challenges the hypothesis of the mysterious Planet Nine.

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in 2021. See them spin in this time-lapse. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (UC ...

Now is your chance to see every planet in our solar system. This parade of seven planets, eight if you include Earth, peaks Friday evening. Mars, Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Saturn are potentially ...

Earth's invisible magnetic field acts as a vital shield, protecting life from dangerous cosmic radiation and solar particles.

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

Fast-forward to today: we’ve gone from one lonely planet to a catalog of thousands. The pace is accelerating. In 2015, NASA’s ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...