Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...

The mysterious interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is absolutely blasting out water at a staggering rate, astronomers found.

Damanveer Singh Grewal suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy ...

Auburn University physicists have detected water activity in comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time hydroxyl gas, water's chemical signature, has been observed from an interstellar visitor.

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.

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

Astronomers named it 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar comet ever discovered. When scientists at Auburn University turned ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

A study led by Howard Chen looks to explain what NASA space telescopes are missing in the search for life beyond Earth.

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate ...