Planetary Formation
Our Sun May Have Eaten A Super Earth For Breakfast
A Super-Earth may have formed in our Solar System's earlier days, and then been destroyed by the Sun.
A Star With A Disk Of Water Ice? Meet HD 100546
Water ice in a disk surrounding a star might seem out of place, but the ice might be essential to…
ALMA Captures Never-Before-Seen Details of Protoplanetary Disk
ALMA, a network of radio telescopes, creates the most detailed images ever of a solar system forming around a nearby…
VLA Shows Early Stages Of Planet Formation In Unprecedented Detail
Astronomers have captured the earliest image yet of the formation of planets around a young star.
Does Antarctica Have A Hidden Layer Of Meteorites Below Its Surface?
A team of University of Manchester researchers proposes an intriguing answer to the puzzle of why we've found precious few…
Largest Rocky World Found
Astrophysicists using the Kepler Spacecraft have discovered the largest rocky planet yet: BD+20594b is 16 times as massive as Earth.
A Cataclysmic Collision Formed the Moon, but Killed Theia
The Moon is the first object in space that fascinate us Earthlings, and wondering how it got there is a…
Watch This Amazing Video of an Exoplanet in Motion
Exoplanet Beta Pic b orbiting Beta Pictoris from Dunlap Institute on Vimeo. Just. Wow. The motion of an alien world,…
A Recipe for Returning Pluto to Full Planethood
A storm is brewing, a battle of words and a war of the worlds. The Earth is not at risk. It is…
Astronomers are Predicting at Least Two More Large Planets in the Solar System
Could there be another Pluto-like object out in the far reaches of the Solar System? How about two or more?…