Jupiter's rapid early growth dramatically reshaped our solar system, scientists now reveal. Its immense gravity acted as a ...

Space is filled with outliers. While some solar systems function similarly to ours, others embody astrophysical properties that scientists still cannot explain. Some extrasolar gas giants, for ...

Meteorites, known as messengers of the Solar System, are critical objects for studying the formation and evolution of planets ...

What can theoretical models teach scientists about the formation and evolution of exoplanets? This is what a recent funding grant from the National Science | Space ...

Astronomers have discovered amazing fragments of a rare meteorite on the Moon, which may help reveal the secrets of the ...

Jupiter, the colossal planet at the heart of our solar system, has long been a subject of intrigue. Recent research from Rice ...

A comet from elsewhere is currently passing through our Solar System while projecting immense plumes of ice and dust toward ...

Chinese scientists studying a 2-gram lunar soil sample from the Chang'e 6 mission have identified rare CI chondrite impact ...

For the study, the researchers made several remarkable and new discoveries: the two M-type stars that comprise the binary ...