While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

I cherish my fairly sharp memories of the 2016 launch version of No Man's Sky, inasmuch as the contrast renders the ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide ... It all begins in a disk-shaped cloud of gas (99%) and dust (1%)—the protoplanetary disk. Here, dust particles ...

Environmentalists are worried the state — known for a lax approach to regulation — is not prepared for the added ...

Scientists say that a newly discovered space-rock has a chance of colliding with our planet in less than 10 years ...

Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter ... In the mid-region, beyond where everything vaporizes, rock materials solidify, but it's too hot for gases, like ...

All indications are that Green House Gas (GHG) emissions are causing higher global temperatures and climate change. Records ...

It’s either crucial to energy security, or a climate disaster in the making. Labor will have to decide whether to let the LNG ...

But whereas our solar system developed with gas giants far from our sun ... for the first time measuring the rock-to-ice ratio for a transiting planet using a single instrument.