The latest discoveries about Vesta challenge its traditional classification. This giant asteroid might actually be a remnant ...

"The algorithm achieves precision values of up to 0.99, which means that 99% of the systems identified by the machine-learning model have at least one Earth-like planet." ...

It’s 9 a.m. on Monday morning, and I’m on the sixth floor of Sterling Hall at UW–Madison. Here, in the newly formed Wisconsin ...

Scientists think collisions were plentiful in the Solar System as the rocky planets formed, allowing material to accrete into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of water ice in a planetary system beyond our own for the first ...

Stars don’t just form planets—they may also re-supply their disks with gas, reshaping how and where planets emerge.

A meteorite found in Antarctica in 2012 suggests Earth may have formed with the materials needed to make water, a new study ...

An alternate explanation that fits the evidence is that Vesta was once part of a planet – but which planet that might been ...