Leonardo Testi and team investigate the initial conditions for planet formation in this special astronomy focus ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

Astronomers have identified a wildly distorted world that looks less like a sphere and more like a squeezed citrus fruit, and ...

New experiments have shown that the core of Mars formed much faster than Earth's core, thanks to molten iron and nickel sulfides seeping down through solid rock and into the center of the Red Planet.

Scientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing the ...

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in ...

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just ...

For a telescope that spends much of its time listening to faint spectra, the James Webb Space Telescope has also learned how ...