Planetary Formation
Are the Gaps in These Disks Caused by Planets?
Astronomers like observing distant young stars as they form. Stars are born out of a molecular cloud, and once enough…
Mars Was Hit By a Lot of Protoplanets Early in its History, Taking Longer to Form than Previously Thought.
There are around 61,000 meteorites on Earth, or at least that's how many have been found. Out of those, about…
Planet Mars, From Pole to Pole
A new image from the ESA's Mars Express Orbiter shows exactly how different regions in Mars are from one another.…
That Explains a Lot. The Moon’s Largest Crater has a Chunk of Metal Embedded in it That’s 5 Times Bigger than the Big Island of Hawaii
One of the largest craters in the Solar System is on our Moon. It's called the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) basin…
Astronomers See Adorable Baby Planets Forming Around a Young Star
370 light years away from us, a solar system is making baby planets. The star at the center of it…
Bizarre Double Star System Flipped its Planetary Disk on its Side
An international research team recently found a binary star system with a debris disk that orbits around their poles.
Here are 20 Protoplanetary Disks, With Newly Forming Planets Carving Out Gaps in the Gas and Dust
A new survey by an ALMA collaboration has resulted in stunning images of 20 nearby protoplanetary disks, which shows the…
Surprising Discovery. Four Giant Planets Found Around a Very Young Star
What exactly is a "normal" solar system? If we thought we had some idea in the past, we definitely don't…
Forming Dense Metal Planets like Mercury is Probably Pretty Difficult and Rare in the Universe
A new study by a team of Swiss astronomers indicates that Mercury-like planets, which have a high iron-to-rock ration, are…
This Meteorite is One of the Few Remnants from a Lost Planet that was Destroyed Long Ago
A new study provides evidence of a so-called lost planet that was formed in the early days of the Solar…