Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

Jupiter's formation played a crucial role in creating zones that captured material, leading to the birth of Earth, Mars, and ...

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What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Scientists found two Earth-sized planets and a third candidate orbiting a nearby double star system, TOI-2267.

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...

I/ATLAS was first spotted by NASA scientists in May this year. Ever since, it has displayed behaviors that are not just ...

Meteorites, known as messengers of the Solar System, are critical objects for studying the formation and evolution of planets ...

Ancient rocks reveal a potassium-40 deficit, the first physical evidence of the proto-Earth and insights into early planetary ...