There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?
With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...
When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...
From lava worlds to gas giants, NASA says the variety of these worlds is staggering—and that signs of a further 8,000 distant ...
Astronomers observe for the first time the actual motion of spirals in a protoplanetary disk, revealing gravitational ...
The odds for life existing on other planets has just skyrocketed after a NASA rover unearthed new evidence on Mars. The odds ...
Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...
One of the most notable properties of the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune—are the ...
There are ‘super-Earths’ and ‘mini-Neptunes’ — categorized because of how their masses compare with those of planets in the Solar System — which are some of the most common exoplanets found so far.
The ice giants remain some of the most interesting places to explore in the solar system. Uranus in particular has drawn a ...