Astronomers have spent the past decade cataloguing thousands of planets beyond the solar system, many of them falling into a ...

The curious minds at What If investigate what would happen if Jupiter suddenly transformed into a rocky planet, revealing ...

Based on their models, the UZH astrophysicists concluded that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune could have a wide range of ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

In addition to shaping the interior of rocky planets, molten rock located deep within these planets may also contribute to ...

That would make it thousands of times more massive than any moon orbiting a solar system plane  — so massive it could make ...

An international team of astronomers led from regional Queensland finds an exoplanet 150 light-years away with a 50 per cent ...

NASA has revealed a terrifying glimpse into our solar system 's grizzly fate. In five billion years, scientists believe the ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists found that simple amino acids bond into peptides on interstellar dust, long ...

"A strong magnetic field is very important for life on a planet." ...