What: A newly identified star system, Gaia GIC1, exhibits unusual brightness variations consistent with a large planetary ...

A new study based on observations from the Subaru Telescope reveals that smaller Jupiter Trojan asteroids behave very ...

Astronomers have long been fascinated by the complex process of planetary system evolution, a journey that spans hundreds of millions of years. For most of human history, we have observed planetary ...

How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a pair of scientists from the Southwest Research ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This artist’s illustration depicts a large disk of planetary debris, surrounded by a thick cloud of dust and gas, as it passes in ...

The Nebular Origins of the Universe Research Laboratory will connect pre-planetary evolution to planetary formation to understand the chemical origins of planetary systems SAN ANTONIO — December 1, ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.

Pegasi b Fellow Sarah Steele will spend three years at UC Santa Cruz working with Earth and planetary scientists to advance ...

For decades, many scientists have relied on the "hard steps" model to suggest that intelligent life is rare — the improbable result of a series of unlikely evolutionary leaps. But new research by ...

New research uses laboratory experiments to demonstrate that water is naturally created during the planet formation process. By squeezing and heating planetary analog materials between the tips of two ...