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 ...

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

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...

Vast, quasi-circular features on Venus's surface may reveal that the planet has ongoing tectonics, according to new research ...

An international planet hunt spearheaded by Monash University researchers has discovered evidence of five new baby planets, ...

By listening to the echoes of "marsquakes" — seismic waves rippling through Mars ' crust — researchers uncovered signs of ...

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid ...

A star racing at high speed through our galaxy is dragging along a massive planet. This discovery surprises scientists, who ...

New research suggests vast surface features on Venus called coronae continue to be shaped by tectonic processes. Observations ...

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness." ...

Brown dwarfs, less luminous than stars, provide an unusual environment for planet formation. This serendipitous discovery opens new perspectives on planet formation. Binary systems, already known to ...

A new study published onarXiv by researchers from UC Berkeley, led by theoretical physicist J.J. Zanazzi, reveals that giant ...