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

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Terrestrial planets include Mercury ... They are sometimes called gas giants because they are large and made mostly of gases. Small amounts of rocky materials are only found deep in the cores ...

A year on Uranus is 42,718 Uranus days long! Between the orbits of the terrestrial planets and the gas giants, there are millions of asteroids – rocky objects that orbit the Sun and vary in size ...

"I wanted to create the dashboard because there currently isn't a go-to place to see which types of planets are being observed by JWST and answering questions like: 'How many terrestrial planets ...

Billions of years from now, our world will follow the fate of its sister planets as the sun expands to become a red giant. But as it does, other oases may awaken on the faraway moons of the gas gi ...

We now have gas giants in the universe, and they can be explored if you have equipment advanced enough to allow you to do so.

Geochemistry is the study of the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, and the chemical ... Analysis of the sulfur composition of gas emissions at Campi Flegrei in Italy suggests ...