Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...

1️⃣ Shifting shape: Scientists who recently confirmed that Earth’s inner core reversed its spin have a new revelation.

Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...

A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

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

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...

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