About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

An expanding 'rogue' planet 620 light-years away was spotted using European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope.

Ancient ocean grains show Earth’s carbon levels were far lower than expected during key evolutionary eras. The results challenge old theories of life’s rise and hint at patterns that could shape our ...

Explore the fascinating worlds of Planetary Science and Geophysics, uncovering mysteries of the cosmos and Earth's processes.

According to a recent study, published inScience Advances, the early Earth was formed astonishingly fast, but it wasn’t ...

New research suggests that planets outside our solar system contain far less surface water than scientists once believed.

The timing of Earth's early formation points to a planet that started out dry. So, life’s essential building blocks arrived ...

In the 30 years since the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, more than 6,000 planets outside our Solar System have been catalogued. Two modern-day explorers explain how.

While the Moon’s near side and far side display different surfaces, could their interiors differ, as well? This is what a recent study published in N | Space ...

Space scientists look back on 30 years of exoplanet discoveries — from rows of massive ‘super-Earths‘ to worlds with ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has provided scientists with their clearest picture yet of how moons might form around distant worlds. By using its remarkable mid-infrared spectrograph, the observatory ...