"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary ...

For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the early stages of planet formation around a distant young star, HOPS-315, ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

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

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of the solar system, with a diametre of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...

The James Webb Telescope captures the beginning of planetary formation around the young star HOPS-315 for the first time.

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

For years, scientists believed the “giant impact” that formed the Moon melted and reshaped the entire young Earth, erasing its original composition. The new MIT findings challenge that view.

MIT scientists have discovered ancient rock samples from Greenland, Canada, and Hawaii exhibiting a rare potassium-40 deficit ...

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a ...