The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has revealed an unexpected spiral structure within the inner ...

A newly identified Kuiper Belt trio, possibly only the second of its kind, could provide strong evidence that these distant ...

Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet—a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar ...

Scientists have confirmed a 19-year-old theory on solar flare formation by observing “slip-running” reconnections in the ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased ...

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang ...

Scientists have discovered a potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt, the Altjira system, challenging planet-formation ...

things that look nothing like our own solar system. "Every time we think we really understand planet formation, we learn something new. And this is going to just keep happening over the next ...

W. M. Keck Observatory’s laser guide star adaptive optics (LGS AO) system uses a laser to create an artificial star to measure for atmospheric distortions. This results in sharp, high-resolution ...

The shape of a planet's orbit is one of its fundamental properties, along with its size and distance from its host star.