TRI-CITIES, Wash., - A new educational project is set to transform the trails along the Columbia River into a scale model of ...

Macduff met the Herald this week at the Jupiter basalt marker along the Columbia Park Trail, just east of the blue bridge. It ...

What new technologies or methods can be developed for more efficient in-situ planetary subsurface analyses? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference ...

They believe that Vesta was on its way to becoming a planet and that the Solar System's rocky planets likely ... "Vesta's large-scale interior structure had previously been constrained primarily ...

At a frigid -125 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius), WD 1856+534 b is the coldest planet ever directly observed, surpassing the previous record-holder, Epsilon Indi Ab, which stands at around 35 ...

Over millions of years, these objects grew larger, sweeping up material in their orbits and becoming the planets we know today. This model of solar system formation is known as the nebular hypothesis.

A new machine learning model has predicted that ... just six light-years from the solar system, Barnard’s Star is now confirmed to host four planets about 20-30% of the mass of Earth that ...

Scientists previously thought that solar geoengineering—or releasing particles into the atmosphere to reflect solar ...

Mar. 17, 2025 — A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system ... a compelling new model for the formation ...

Webb Telescope Captures Its First Direct Images of Carbon Dioxide Outside Solar System ... Earth-Like Planets May Exist Mar. 11, 2025 — A new study presents a compelling new model for the ...

Stars have long inspired curiosity among observers, but our understanding of their birth and the creation of planets around ...

In a groundbreaking study published on April 30, 2025, in Popular Science, astronomers from the exoALMA project have captured ...