Researchers say tropical coral reefs may have already crossed a tipping point, portending mass dieback. Studies suggest they ...

Design, fear, and greed. After 25 years of obsessing over Mars, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has shifted focus from ...

India’s government launched a Vibrant Villages Programme almost four years ago. But as China steadily builds up its side, ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that ...

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, as well as other gas giants ...

The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...