CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

Embark on a thrilling journey through our Solar System, exploring the inner planets and space travel possibilities. We start ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

A minuscule meteorite seems to be rewriting the history of our solar system. The 50-gram Northwest Africa 12264 has brought a new understanding of when and how rocky worlds came together. Inner ...

In 2018, an independent researcher bought a piece of space rock from a vendor in Morocco. It could change what we know of the Solar System's formation.

Unexpectedly, JWST data also revealed evidence of a disk around the inner planet, YSES-1 b. This kind of circumplanetary disk has only been observed a handful of times and is thought to be a sign that ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? ... The inner planets, including Earth, took at least 100 million years, maybe more.

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...

The inner planets will be enveloped, and the HZ will shift outward dramatically. Jupiter, Saturn, and their ocean moons may be in the HZ. Our sun isn't exceptional.

NASA artist’s conception of a brown dwarf (main) and stock image of the planets in the solar system (inset). An object between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter may have flown through our ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...