The textbook picture of how planets form—serene, flat disks of cosmic dust—has just received a significant cosmic twist.

The origin of the differing tilts in the orbits of the planets in our solar system may have been revealed through the ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx samples from asteroid Bennu reveal stardust, water-driven chemistry, and clues to life’s origins in the ...

New research suggests a giant impact may not have been responsible for the formation of Jupiter’s core. Most planetary scientists thought that a colossal collision with an early planet containing half ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant origin ...

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

This revealed two distinct types of SEEs with different origins. One group is connected to solar flares exploding from small regions of the sun, while the other population is connected to larger, more ...

Single-celled species that often stick together in colonies have researchers rethinking the origin of animals.

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new ...