Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...

A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and death of nearby stars are an important piece of the puzzle. In a paper ...

Chondrite meteorite origin upended by July 2026 Science Advances study: SwRI researchers show the most common meteorites ...

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called planetesimals, formed over millions of years. The discovery, published in The ...

Astronomers could multiply the known catalog of planets outside our solar system by a factor of roughly 16 in a single ...