An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Center of Competence in ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

The Kuiper Belt is loosely defined as a doughnut-shaped swath of space beginning just beyond the orbit of Neptune and ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the ...

There, nitrogen and methane have turned into ice, covering the entire planet. Yet in this icy landscape, scientists speculate that there may be a liquid ocean beneath the ice, and this ocean might ...

The long-standing idea of planets forming in perfectly flat, orderly discs has been challenged by new research. Instead of ...

The coldest planet in the Solar System is Uranus, which is surprisingly colder than Neptune due to its unique internal heat ...

At the vast edge of the solar system, Pluto has long been perceived as a cold and lonely dwarf planet. However, a recent ...

Astronomers have discovered the raw ingredients of planets orbiting two infant stars, offering a glimpse into how new worlds ...

An international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), including scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, the University of Warwick, and the Canary Islands ...

Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...