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 ...

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

Astronomers have recently detected a colossal object at the edge of our solar system, sparking excitement and curiosity ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

Today, let's talk about something super mysterious! A detector has discovered an icy comet in the Kuiper Belt, and this has ...

A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...

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

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

Astronomers still aren't exactly sure how planets get their start. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you want to build a planet, ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...