At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as many of them as possible to ...

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets. Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from -- and why some are ...

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Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first time, if more detailed analyses verify preliminary observations from the James Webb ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and influencing their tectonics. New findings suggest these violent impacts ...

Mars’s atmosphere may have once been hundreds of times thicker than it is today, acting as a blanket that protected it from frequent asteroids that ravaged other planets. While the sun and most ...

The discovery of the Kuiper Belt fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the solar system's architecture and population, revealing a far larger and more complex system than previously imagined.

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Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...