Planetary Formation
OSIRIS-REx: The Audacious Plan To Scoop An Asteroid And Fly Back To Earth
We've been super-excited about the Philae landing recently, the first soft landing on a comet. But imagine if the spacecraft…
Dusty Baby Solar System Gives Clues On How Our Sun And Planets Grew Up
This isn't a clone of our Solar System, but it's close enough. Scientists eagerly scrutinized a young star system called…
- Astronomy
- Cosmology
- ESO
- Exoplanets
- Extrasolar Planets
- Infrared Astronomy
- Planetary Formation
- Stellar Evolution
ALMA Shows Off Baby Pictures… Baby Planets, That Is!
In a test of its new high resolution capabilities, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is happily sharing some family…
Double Disc Found Feeding Each Other In Binary Star System
Deep within the Taurus Dark Cloud complex, one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth has just revealed one of…
Second Possible Proto-Planet Found In System Pretty Close To Earth
Astronomers have found what they believe is a second protoplanet around HD100546, a youngster star that may also host a…
Spotted: Asteroids ‘Smashing Themselves To Smithereens’ 1,200 Light-Years Away
When a crop of dust spread forth from the star NGC 2547-1D8 during 2012 observations, scientists quickly sprang into action.…
Tonight’s Moon-Mars-Saturn Trio Recalls Time of Terror
Check it out. Look southwest at dusk tonight and you'll see three of the solar system's coolest personalities gathering for…
Spin! Exoplanet’s Day Finishes Blazing Fast Compared To Earth
Between the time you got to work this morning and the time you leave today -- assuming an eight-hour work…
Surprise! Asteroid Hosts A Two-Ring Circus Above Its Surface
Rings are a tough phenomenon to spot. As late as 1977, astronomers thought that the only thing in the solar…
- Astronomy
- Extrasolar Planets
- Observing
- Orion
- Planetary Formation
- Solar System
- Stars
- Stellar Evolution
- supernova
“Death Stars” Caught Blasting Proto-Planets
It’s a tough old universe out there. A young star has lots to worry about, as massive stars just beginning…