Recent scientific discoveries have unearthed evidence of a cataclysmically destroyed planet, fragments of which contributed ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have unearthed the first direct evidence that fragments of ‘proto-Earth’—ancient ...

Using NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), astronomers have discovered three ...

Our galaxy's most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between magma oceans ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Washington, DC— Our galaxy’s most abundant type of planet could be rich in liquid water due to formative interactions between ...

Warm Jupiters are rewriting the rules of planet formation - showing eccentric orbits that stay strangely aligned with their stars.