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New research sheds light on the study of planetary formation, revealing critical details about water vapors role in the evolution of early planetary systems.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) uncovered secrets about how Earth formed billions of years ago by detecting cold steam in young star disks, shedding light on planet birth mysteries.

Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to confirm a long-standing theory on how planets are formed.

Scientists at Yale and SwRI reveal a new theory explaining how precious metals found their place in Earth's mantle, rewriting cosmic narratives.

Telescopes at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory near La Serena, Chile. Guillaume Doyen/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, CC BYNASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft flew by Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, dropping off its sample of dust and pebbles gathered from the surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu. Analysis of this sample will help scientists understand how the solar system formed and from what sorts of materials. Scientists will begin their analysis in the same facility that analyzed rocks and dust f...

NASAs Psyche spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 12. This mission, part of NASAs Discovery Program, aims to study the composition, geology, magnetic field, and gravity of the unique asteroid named Psyche. The spacecraft will employ a solar-electric propulsion system to reach the asteroid, which is located between Mars and Jupiter.

NASA’s Psyche mission, a project with deep roots at MIT, is setting course for a metallic space rock that could be the remnant of a planetary core like our own. Its principal investigator is MIT alumna and former professor Lindy Elkins-Tanton, who leads a team including longtime MIT colleagues on the first mission to a metal world.

The planet is larger than Jupiter.

Could two planets be sharing the same orbit around a star? This is a question that has puzzled astronomers for centuries. In recent years, however, new evidence has emerged that suggests that co-orbital planets may be more common than previously

A spectacular new image released by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) gives us clues about how planets as massive as Jupiter could form. Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers have detected large dusty clumps, close to a