Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Is there a smooth transition from one type of planet to the other is there a more dominant unknown type of planet composition and structure we have not measured yet? To answer these and other ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

Certain extreme planets are called ultra-short period objects if they're very close to their stars and orbit them in mere hours, like K2-22b.

Scientists believe the planet's mirror-like quality is due to the composition of its atmosphere. The metallic clouds that surround the planet are mostly made of silicate – the stuff that makes ...