A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...

In April, astronomers said they had detected a possible signature of life on the exoplanet K2-18b. Now, three independent ...

According to their work, Jupiter's radius was once two to two-and-a-half times its current radius—large enough to contain ...

The Republican-majority Senate voted to nullify California's landmark environmental rule that would've banned the sale of new ...

The recent detection of a gas in a distant plant has been linked to life forms has sparked debate among scientists.

A pair of researchers in astrophysics claim the data sheds new light on Jupiter’s role in shaping the early solar system and ...

Are planets in the solar system that are closer to the Sun older than the ones further away? – Gavriel, age 10, Paducah, Kentucky A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to ...

Stars don’t just form planets—they may also re-supply their disks with gas, reshaping how and where planets emerge.

"It's like trying to spot a fish by looking for ripples in a pond, rather than trying to see the fish itself." ...

Save money when the colder months arrive by getting ahead of the game and making these changes now, to create a more ...