90 percent of all exoplanets discovered to date (there are now more than 5000 of them) orbit around stars the…
Something ancient and primordial lurks in Earth's core. Helium 3 (3He) was created in the first minutes after the Big…
Astronomers have watched the young binary star system SVS 13 for decades. Astronomers don't know much about how planets form…
When it comes to observing protoplanetary disks, the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA) is probably the champion. ALMA was the…
Titanic collisions are the norm in young solar systems. Earth's Moon was the result of one of those collisions when…
Planets form from the accumulation of countless grains of dust swirling around young stars. New computer simulations have found that…
The early asteroids had a similar size, and this could be due to turbulence in the early solar system.
New research shows there is a divide between how gas planets and rocky worlds form.
Planetary system formation is a process that involves astounding and complex forces. Humans have only just started trying to understand…
Westerlund 2 is a star cluster about 20,000 light years away. It's young—only about one or two million years old—and…