planet formation

Researchers have used the chemical fingerprints of zinc contained in meteorites to determine the origin of volatile elements on Earth. The results...

The winds that help to form planets in the gaseous discs of early solar systems have been imaged for the first time by the James Webb Space Telescope...

Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for...

A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust.

Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems.

After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto, and of the University of Cambridge...