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

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 bizarre, ultra-light planet is cloaked in such a thick haze that even JWST can’t reveal its composition. Its unusual size and orbit are forcing scientists to rethink how planets form.

These three exoplanets are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by ...

A hazy, ultra-light “super-puff” planet, Kepler-51d, is hiding its secrets and challenging how scientists understand planet formation.

For centuries, astronomers faced the challenge of classifying objects in space based on their appearance. When observing an ...

In a distant part of our cosmos, an intriguing new world exists. This newly discovered exoplanet, identified as L 98-59 d, seems to play host to a rare type of planetary environment.

There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean worlds and super-Earths with a rocky structure ...

More than two centuries after asteroid 16 Psyche was first identified, scientists are still trying to determine how it formed.Located in the main ...

Scientists discover a nearby planet with a molten interior and sulfur-rich atmosphere, L 98-59 d, revealing a possible new ...

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...