Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

"We are now finally trying to translate what we've learned of the solar system into exoplanets." "The goal was not to assess planet LHS 3844b specifically," First said, "but rather to consider a ...

By probing chemical processes observed in the Earth's hot mantle, Cornell scientists have started developing a library of ...

It must have cleared all other celestial bodies, except its own moons, from its orbit.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

Why does Jupiter look like it has a surface – even though it doesn’t have one? – Sejal, age 7, Bangalore, India ...

Tiny grains from the asteroid Ryugu are helping scientists uncover secrets about how the outer regions of our solar system ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...