[/caption] It was once thought that our planet was part of a "typical" solar system. Inner rocky worlds, outlying gas…
It’s generally assumed that the Earth’s overall composition is similar to that of chondritic meteorites, the primitive, undifferentiated building blocks…
[/caption] Chalk up a sizzling success for the HiCIAO planet-hunter camera on the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii: it's captured this unprecedented…
[/caption] Binary star systems can have planets – although these are generally assumed to be circumbinary (where the orbit encircles…
[/caption] One of the fundamental problems in planetary science is trying to determine how planetary bodies in the inner solar…
[/caption] Well, not only may up to 25% of Sun-like stars have Earth-like planets - but if they are in…
[/caption] A Japanese team of astronomers have reported a strong correlation between the metallicity of dusty protoplanetary disks and their…
[/caption] Wanna build celestial objects? I mean it sounds easy - you just start with a big cloud of dust…
[/caption] We truly live in an amazing time for exoplanet research. It was only 18 years ago the first planet…
[/caption] Astronomers studying double star systems where the two stars are extremely close have found a pattern of destruction. While…