A meteorite from Mars, the largest piece ever found on Earth, sold for $5.3 million to an anonymous bidder at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Wednesday.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby sun-like star, providing a ...

The observations offer a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an emerging planetary system, said the University of ...

In a cosmic first, scientists identified signs of early planet formation by looking deep into the gas disk around a baby star ...

These planets end up “frozen” in place once the star cluster breaks apart. These wide-orbit planets sit between 100 and 10,000 AU from their star, way beyond where most planets form. Collective ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Koenig and his colleagues examined an area of space called W5, which lies about 6,500 light-years away toward the constellation Cassiopeia—about 6 ...

Iceland is a country unlike any other,a breathtaking island where volcanic forces and icy landscapes collide to form one of the most surreal environments on Earth. Often described as the land that ...

Rocky planets take a more leisurely route, since the dust that they’re made of doesn’t dissipate as quickly. They can takes tens of millions of years to form, according to the research.

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array has detected methanol isotopes around a nearby star, which could help explain why the ingredients for life are present on Earth.