At the center of our solar system, the sun influences every planet that orbits it. In two recent studies, scientists ...
Research findings are available online in the journal arXiv. The original story " Astronomers find an ultra-dense mega-Earth ...
This newly found 'mega-Earth' is forcing astronomers to rethink how rocky planets form. Here’s how.
The planet, named GJ 523b, is around 170 million years old and more than 2.5 times the size of Earth. It has approximately 23 ...
Found in the northern sky, GJ 3378b is a potentially rocky world with liquid water on its surface, receiving 90% of the ...
If Earth is a superorganism that intelligently regulates the conditions for life, humans could be part of its master plan.
Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...
Scientists have found a massive rocky world far beyond our solar system that is more than 20 times the mass of Earth.
Two continent-sized structures deep inside Earth may contain remnants of Theia, the ancient planet thought to have collided ...