How do terrestrial planets like Earth form and evolve to enable life to exist? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a pair of scientists from the Southwest Research ...

A Sun-type star situated nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth has provided astronomers with a unique opportunity to observe an ...

Do planetary systems also experience a turbulent childhood phase? Images captured by the ALMA telescope network provide a ...

For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.

Debris disks are circumstellar structures composed of dust and rocky debris generated by collisions among planetesimals and other small bodies. These disks offer a direct window into the dynamical ...