Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

Most of the long-period comets in the Solar System come from the outer Oort Cloud. The inner region is much more stable. It's ...

The Protoplanetary Disk and Planet Formation Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system originated from a vast cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. As this nebula collapsed ...

A new classification scheme may help us better understand planet formation — including the history of our own family of worlds.

The findings provide strong evidence that four giant exoplanets 130 light-years from Earth formed much like Jupiter and ...

What can a sample return mission from Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io, teach scientists about planetary and satellite (moon) ...

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captured direct images of gas giants in HR 8799, revealing their carbon dioxide-rich atmospheres.

These are types of planets that are absent from our own solar system, but paradoxically constitute the most ... on a planetary configuration that could provide valuable clues to the formation and ...