A mysterious radio signal from a distant planet has sparked excitement among astronomers, hinting at the tantalizing ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Understanding how and when Earth, Jupiter, other planets in the Solar System, and numerous exoplanets formed within our ...

The ESA’s Gaia mission mapped the positions and velocities of stars with extreme precision by measuring about one billion ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

A graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama system, has published a paper in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics that builds on ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Mercury joins the night sky to complete a seven-planet alignment just after sunset for the end of February. Saturn leaves our ...

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...