New research suggests that essential components of life may assemble in interstellar space long before planets or oceans ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their atmospheres, ...

Thanks to the discovery of thousands of exoplanets to date, we know that planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune orbit most stars. Oddly, our sun lacks such a planet. That's been a source ...

The origin of super-Earths and sub-Neptunes has been revealed in a system of four young planets that are dramatically losing ...

New experiments reveal that protein precursors can form naturally in deep space under extreme cold and radiation. Scientists ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

Challenging long-held assumptions, Aarhus University researchers have demonstrated that the protein building blocks essential ...

A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.

Astronomers discovered Gomez’s Hamburger, a massive protoplanetary disk. Edge-on view shows dust and gas layers with clumps ...

New research from the University of St Andrews has found that giant free floating planets have the potential to form their own miniature planetary systems without the need for a star. In findings ...

The 'superionic ice' can't make up its mind between being a solid or liquid.