Planets around other stars can help answer one of the greatest mysteries: How did we get here? How did the spinning disk of material left behind by our sun’s birth form our planet and its seven ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...

Astronomers have observed two planets forming in the disk around a young star named WISPIT 2. Having previously detected one planet, the team has now employed European Southern Observatory (ESO) ...

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Exoplanet L98-59d, located far beyond our solar system, might not sound like someone’s dream destination. It likely has an underground ocean of magma, a surface temperature that reaches around 3,500 ...

A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

In the rugged goldfields of southeastern Australia, a local prospector spent years trying to crack open a mysterious, rust-colored rock. He was convinced it held gold. The object was unusually heavy, ...