What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding ...

The discovery of ancient water in a planet-forming disk reveals that some of the water found in comets—and maybe even ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

"The complexity of the exo-Neptunian landscape provides offers a unique window onto the processes involved in the formation ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

A new study explores how eccentric warm Jupiters - giant exoplanets with unusual oval orbits - form, offering clues about the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a detailed image of NGC 6000, a barred spiral galaxy. It displays a yellow core of old ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically ...

Rocks from Canada, Greenland, and Hawai'i have less of the already rare isotope potassium-40 than those from the rest of the ...

A study published in the journal Nature Astronomy challenges traditional explanations about the origin of the innermost planet in the Solar System and proposes a more likely scenario. The collision ...

New research forces scientists to reconsider the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin, the landing spot for NASA’s Artemis project.