Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

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

Astronomers detected a bright signal, coming from deep inside a dust disc, that is likely newborn planet HD 135344B still gathering mass.

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

The appearance of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere was a turning point in the history of our planet, forever transforming the ...

Astronomers have directly imaged WISPIT 2b, a young gas giant forming within a gap of its star's protoplanetary disk. This groundbreaking discovery provides the first direct evidence that these disk ...

New research reveals fungi, not plants, were Earth's first land colonizers, emerging hundreds of millions of years earlier.

A new NASA-backed study—relying on data from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System (CERES) satellite—suggests that ...

Astronaut Don Pettit, who is known for blending science with visual storytelling, recorded the scene during his current ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

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