And the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Sometimes, if the night is dark and clear enough, you can look up and see the Milky Way in its arc across the sky.

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

Ever since scientists started looking at meteorites with microscopes, they’ve been puzzled–and fascinated–by what’s inside. Most meteorites are made of tiny beads of glass that date back to the ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

Research suggests Earth received most of its phosphorus and nitrogen from nearby planetary building blocks, reshaping ...

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed. The post Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet ...

"It points to a distinct and separate evolutionary path in planetary formation in the early history of our solar system." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Estimating ages of specific events is one of the most difficult problems in astrophysics. While we have a precise (and probably accurate) age for the solar system, we do not have precise ages for each ...