Learn more about L 98‑59 d, an exoplanet 35 light‑years away with a deep global magma ocean ...

The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ingredients of life may be common in the solar system.

Kepler-51d is the coolest and least dense of the planets in this planetary system. “We think the three inner planets orbiting ...

Spin separates giant planets from 'failed stars' Clearest evidence yet that giant planets spin faster than their cosmic lookalikes. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have ...

A massive crater on asteroid Psyche may hold the key to whether it’s a lost planet’s core or something more complex. New simulations suggest NASA’s upcoming mission could finally solve the mystery.

How does fine dust aggregate into building blocks that ultimately form entire planets like our Earth? A research team led by ...

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

A rocky planet beyond gas dwarfs in LHS 1903 indicates that planetary systems form in unexpected ways.

Astronomers already know how planetary systems are born and how they look once they are fully grown, but what has remained mostly hidden is the awkward “teenage” phase in between — the period when ...

Astronomers have long believed that planetary systems follow a familiar blueprint. Small rocky planets stay close to their star, while large gas planets orbit much farther away. Our own solar system ...

The takeaway: An international team of astronomers has published a study on LHS 1903, a red dwarf star hosting a truly unusual planetary system. Unlike our solar system and many previously discovered ...