'We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to where the sun and planets were forming.' When you purchase through links on ...

If you look up on a clear night, the brightest and largest object in the sky will probably be the moon. And unless you have a decent telescope, it is the only natural satellite you can see with your ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

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Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

"With the Earth and quasi-moon taking turns passing each other, the quasi-moon appears to be moving around us," Ponterio said ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...

Our solar system is a weird place. Much more than a home to eight planets, it’s filled with a myriad of fascinating other smaller bodies, including moons, asteroids, and comets. In recent decades, ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...