Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

A new study suggests Earth formed almost entirely from material in the inner Solar System, challenging the idea that ...

A newly reported radio signature from Beta Pictoris b is giving astronomers a rare way to investigate the magnetic environment of a planet beyond our solar system. Observations with South Africa’s ...

Thousands of planets have been discovered beyond our solar system, offering clues to where life might thrive and whether ...

Scientists say the sun may have swallowed a super-Earth billions of years ago, leaving chemical fingerprints that could still ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Ancient iron meteorites reveal that some of the Solar System’s first solid bodies were built mostly from tiny heat-forged rock beads called chondrules, while water-rich dust was largely excluded. The ...

Iron meteorites show the first bodies of the early solar system were 83% to 92% dry rock, with water arriving millions of ...

Blueprint for Planetary Intelligence] Vol. 29 Late Heavy Bombardment: Delivery of Volatiles (Water and Organic Matter) from ...

Harvard University researchers recently examined carbonaceous chondrite meteorites using precise measurements of three ...