When the solar system first took up the task of building solid bodies—such as planets, moons and protoplanets—it basically had a choice between two ingredients: heat-forged chondrules, which were ...

Researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory have teamed up to get a fresh ...

The number of rocky extrasolar planets being discovered continues to increase, but so too does the apparent diversity of such worlds.

That pattern backs a "born big" view of planet construction. In the early solar system, clouds of pebble‑size material in the ...

For the first time, scientists used the combined power of NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes to study some of the ...

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