New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

By analyzing the data from the HASH database, astronomers have conducted a comprehensive study of nearly 1,500 planetary ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to ...

This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

It calls for immediate global action, warning that ocean acidification and other environmental breaches risk irreversible damage to the Earth’s natural systems ...

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human ...