"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets ... rock. They quickly became massive enough to also gravitationally trap gases such as hydrogen and helium from ...

rock and dust. Uranus and Neptune come next. Whilst unmanned spacecraft have approached the gas planets, actual landings are not possible because of the lack of solid surfaces. The gas planets are ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy & hosted The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-107 b could ...

New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where planets formed in the early universe.

Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This so-called accretion is not yet fully understood. Astrophysicists at the ...

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

The current exoplanet census contains 5,832 confirmed candidates, with more than 7,500 still awaiting confirmation. Of those that have been confirmed, most have been gas giants ranging from ...

It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets, including one last giant impact that threw enough rock, gas, and dust into space to form the ...

Every time a planet has been found orbiting its star that closely before, it has either been a huge gas giant, similar to Jupiter, or a barren tiny rock planet smaller than Earth. "We expect ...