Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...

Research analyzing molybdenum isotopes in meteorites and Earth rocks shows our planet received its water later than ...

An instrument created by a team at the University of New Hampshire was recently installed onto a spacecraft that is preparing ...

The finding, reported in the science journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, is significant because the data reported by the ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

WASP-121b is like nothing in the solar system, raining liquid metal and being puffy like a marshmallow. The origins of these ...

What astronomers call a “parade of planets” will be visible in the early evening sky all month. Mark Pitts is an assistant ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...

Helium can help scientists detect the speed and direction at which we’re moving through space. Deuterium, which is left over ...

Staring up at the night sky, you might see thousands of stars sprinkled above the horizon. It feels as though you can see so ...