A recent study found that Jupiter was once twice the size that it is now, making it big enough to swallow up 2,000 Earths.

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

The Conference Board of Canada has previously reported that for every 4 billion cubic feet of LNG being produced daily by Canada, GDP grows by $7.4 billion per year and the country adds 65,000 jobs.

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 ...

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

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

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." ...

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 have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around them is evolving.