New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed.

An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar ...

In a discovery that opens a rare observational window into moon formation, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

Electrical equipment housed within auxiliary buildings of nuclear power plants—such as control panels, transformers, and ...

A record 2023 heat wave all but eradicated two species of coral that historically served as the backbone of Florida's reefs, ...

Isn’t it time, in the era of Trump and RFK Jr., to focus on a social structure in which corporations and institutions make decisions that profoundly affect people’s health?

An international team of scientists, including researchers at Penn State, dubbed the exoplanet, named GJ 251 c, a ...

Three leading European aerospace groups announced Thursday a plan to merge their satellite operations to create a powerhouse ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on the San Andreas Fault, a new study says. But some scientists want more ...