Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

U.S. team of researchers detected signs of two chemicals in the planet's atmosphere long considered to be "biosignatures" indicating extraterrestrial life.

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

Their argument and supporting information will be on display at next week’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas. In their paper, the researchers insist that the factors that should ...

Because this exoplanet’s birth is so different from anything else we’ve observed, it’s completely changing what we know about planetary formation. Scientists discovered the exoplanet forming ...

Peering into the origins of our solar system with light brighter than ten billion suns - Dr Ashley King gives an insight into his work as a planetary scientist. It's late November, and Dr Ashley King ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

a postdoctoral researcher in astrophysics at the Paris Institute of Planetary Physics, told Live Science. "Our work reinforces the idea that giant impacts are not just a part of planet formation ...