A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ...

Spectacular clouds swirl across the surface of Jupiter. These clouds contain water, just like Earth's, but are much denser on ...

Our planet is unique for its ability to sustain abundant life. From studies of the rock record, scientists believe life had already emerged on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago and probably much ...

For a couple of times in the span of a single week at the end of 2025, the veteran Hubble Space Telescope stepped into the spotlight with findings like no other in the history of space exploration.

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

During a press conference at the 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Phoenix, Devesh Nandal from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and lead author of the ...

"The combination of extreme disk size, strong asymmetries, winds, and potential planet formation makes it the perfect laboratory for understanding how giant planets can form." When you purchase ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions of years.

Astronomers have seen the aftermath of two planetary pile-ups in the same turbulent star system — providing potential insights into how planets form 1. Observations from the early 2000s indicated that ...