An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a Sun-like star, ...

Astrophysicists have once again enriched our knowledge of the cosmos with a new discovery: two small planets orbiting ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

Floating around at the edge of the Solar System are leftovers from its formation. This is the Kuiper Belt, which is composed ...

A weak magnetic field likely attracted matter inward, contributing to the formation of the outer planetary bodies, from ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...

Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and ...

Located 3,000 miles below the Earth’s surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core. It's believed to play an important role in maintaining the planet’s ...

“This distinction sets up a great natural experiment for us to see if the shape, or size, of bends in rivers is distinct from ...

challenging our understanding of what lies at our planet’s center. Earth’s inner core was long thought to be a solid sphere of mostly iron anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer ...