Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...
Astronomers have identified two giant planets forming within the disc of a young star. The observation offers a rare glimpse ...
Asteroids are leftover pieces from the formation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago. In the beginning, ...
The chemical composition of meteorites and asteroids acts as a kind of fingerprint, providing information about the origin of ...
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 ...
Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...