A new study led by UNLV scientists sheds light on how planets, including Earth, formed in our galaxy—and why the life and ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

Astronomers are investigating a strange class of exoplanets known as eccentric warm Jupiters — massive gas giants that orbit their stars in unexpected, elongated paths. Unlike their close-orbiting ...

In a study published in October 2025 in the Astrophysical Journal, we modeled one of the sources of these geomagnetic storms: ...

Space is filled with outliers. While some solar systems function similarly to ours, others embody astrophysical properties that scientists still cannot explain. Some extrasolar gas giants, for ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these planets be called "rocky giants" instead.

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer ...

As if we needed more proof, an internet legend traced the telling pattern of his garage's shadow over the course of a year.

Geophysicists have modeled how Earth’s magnetic field could form even when its core was fully liquid. By removing the effects ...

For thirteen years, from 2004 to 2017, the Cassini-Huygens mission conducted a detailed survey of the Saturn system. It fundamentally altered our ...