Young, close-orbiting exoplanets known as sub-Neptunes may form farther from their stars and migrate inward or lose their ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ...

"The more solar systems and planets we discover, the more we realize that our solar system isn't really the template; it's an exception. Future missions might enable us to find smaller planets around ...

The unveiling of the “National Integrated Electricity Policy” by the Federal Ministry of Power (MoP) marked a significant ...

From ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ and ‘Planet of the Apes’ to ‘Deep Impact’ and ‘Don’t Look Up’, nothing seems to bring ...

Then something happened which created the template for all complex life ... 4.5 billion years ago, another young planet in the early Solar System crashed into Earth. Both were almost blasted ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in HR 8799, a multiplanet system 130 light-years away ...

“[Planetary scientists] have thought our solar system is not standard in its spacings,” says astronomer Juliette Becker of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In particular, the rocky planets ...