HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...

More information: Kiersten M. Boley et al, The First Evidence of a Host Star Metallicity Cutoff in the Formation of ...

This recycling of stellar material is crucial for the formation of new celestial bodies, while the recycling of carbon—often called the building block of life—is essential for the formation of ...

Using advanced models, SwRI led new research that indicates that the formation of Pluto and Charon may parallel that of the Earth-Moon system. In the resulting “kiss-and-capture” regime ...