About 620 light-years from Earth, a gigantic rogue proto-planet is currently devouring 6.6 billion tons of dust and gas per ...

The world's oceans are bearing the brunt of a triple environmental crisis, according to the European Union's Earth monitors: ...

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

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could ...

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

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period—even before the last of its ...

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

Thirty years ago this week, two Swiss astronomers announced that they had spotted the first known planet orbiting a Sun-like ...

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

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

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

A runaway “rogue planet” is gorging on space dust at a rate of six billion tonnes per second. The event marks the fastest planetary growth ever observed, hinting that some planets form more like stars ...