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.

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.

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 ...

Scientists witness planetary evolution in action as WISPIT 2b emerges within a cosmic nursery hundreds of light-years away.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Webb Telescope is investigating the formation of moons around a massive planet. Astronomers are using the data to study the ...

“Thanks to our results, we know that the proto-Earth was initially a dry rocky planet,” says Kruttasch. “It can therefore be ...