The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Now, finding a young planet like this is a fairly difficult task, as it requires a long and patient hunt for young disk ...

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

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

A new study challenges the dream of water-rich “Hycean” planets like K2-18b, suggesting that most sub-Neptunes lose their water deep into their interiors during formation. Instead of vast oceans, ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

Black holes are among the most intriguing cosmic bodies in space. The Pop III.1 model uses primordial stars to explain how ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...