Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that challenges our understanding of gas giant formation within our solar ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

This artist’s concept shows the volatile red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 and its four most closely orbiting planets, all of which ...

Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

When a planet is born from swirling pockets of molecular gas and dust that surround a young star, it forms under conditions of intense gravity and pressure. The process is violent, the first stages of ...

When a Mars rover accidentally crushed a small rock and exposed a flash of vivid yellow inside, it turned a routine drive ...

"Every new result can reshape our understanding of planets, their habitability, and our place in this universe." When a planet is born from swirling pockets of molecular gas and dust that surround a ...