New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

Recent simulations and research have unveiled a fascinating new insight into the history of the solar system’s terrestrial ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

However, the meteor Northwest Africa (NWA) 12264, which originated from the outer Solar System, revealed that the inner and outer planets were formed simultaneously.

Exciting new findings reveal that WASP-121b, a blazing-hot giant planet, may have formed far from its star in a colder, ice-rich region—before migrating inward to its current extreme orbit. Chemical f ...

To the point - First tentative detection of prebiotic molecules in a planet-forming disc: In the young V883 Orionis system, ...

The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...

via AP) The observations offer a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an emerging planetary ... and detected solid specks condensing — signs of early planet formation. A gap in the outer part of ...

Our Sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow dwarf star – a hot glowing ball of hydrogen and helium – at the center of our solar system.

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red giant, potentially engulfing inner planets. Afterward, it will become a ...