Earth may have produced much of its water during the planet’s formation, as rocky pebbles reacted with the hydrogen-rich ...

(No formulas! The mystery of becoming giant despite a lack of material? Why is it lighter than water and cold despite being ...

Astronomers have reported evidence of a massive possible exomoon in the distant CD-35 2722 system, where one giant object orbits another rather than directly circling a star. The discovery, described ...

Astronomers selected 27 gas giants for the Lazuli private telescope, including one of the first exoplanets to be directly ...

A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick have identified the first second-generation planet ever found around a ...

With water being so important to life on Earth, scientists often look for it on exoplanets. But some of those worlds might ...

How did Uranus and Neptune form? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy and Astrophysics hopes to address as a ...

A new study suggests that some of the heaviest rocky planets ever reported may not be as heavy as they look. These so-called 'mega-Earths,' rocky planets weighing more than about 10 Earths, could be ...

Earth may have produced much of its water during the planet's formation, as rocky pebbles reacted with the hydrogen-rich ...

Exotic chemical elements in the atmosphere of a dead star hint at the presence of a planet that formed after the star’s death ...

Phobos, it seems, is not long for this universe - at least on the large cosmic timescale. Astronomers have long known that ...

NASA’s Lucy mission is now less than a year from reaching the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter. And it has already made some ...