A new SwRI-led paper highlights the scientific progress made in understanding the evolution of terrestrial planets, including the effects of late large impacts on pre-existing modes of tectonics. For ...

One exploded star left behind six Earth masses of rocky planet material just 100 million years after the Big Bang, a simulation finds.

Planets without stars to orbit raise important questions about how planets evolve and what habitability might look like ...

An international team led by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil has developed an innovative method ...

It is thought the sun may have engulfed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its history. Now, a new study has gone a step ...

We'll have about the resolution of Hubble, but we will have 100 times the size of the field of view," said Matthew Bolcar.

Most of the planets astronomers discuss are bound to a star, circling it in a steady orbit the way Earth circles the Sun. But a growing body of evidence suggests the galaxy also holds a vast ...