Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to a new model for how intelligent life developed on Earth.

Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...

Herbert Wich Titusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have variable compositions ... to the formation of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions ... of the gas and ice giants in the outer solar system. This first-order model of planetary growth in the solar nebula is mainly ...