The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner solar system. New research from Rice University reveals that Jupiter played a ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, ...

Earth’s magnetosphere, once thought to have a simple electric polarity pattern, has revealed a surprising twist. New ...

The Origins Federation Conference gathered researchers across disciplines in the search for how life began on Earth—and maybe elsewhere ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

Researchers are studying eccentric warm Jupiters, giant exoplanets that follow odd, elongated orbits unlike anything in our solar system.

The Kardashev Scale, first proposed by Russian astronomer Nikolai Kardashev, measures the technological advancement of civilizations by the amount of energy they can harness and use. In its original ...

Sci-fi movies and TV shows love to place a planet inside a binary system. In reality, a planet shouldn’t be able go around ...

It calls for immediate global action, warning that ocean acidification and other environmental breaches risk irreversible damage to the Earth’s natural systems ...

As missions prepare to visit ocean worlds like Enceladus and Europa, new findings show scientists must first learn to ...

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This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...