solar system formation
We Know We’re Made of Stardust. But Did it Come From Red Giants?
We've all heard this one: when you drink a glass of water, that water has already been through a bunch…
Some of Earth’s Gold Came From Two Neutron Stars That Collided Billions of Years Ago
A new study has shown that a good deal of Earth's heaviest elements may have come from a nearby neutron…
Astronomers Find a Chunk of a Comet Inside a Meteorite
The early days of the Solar System are hard to piece together from our vantage point, billions of years after…
Mission to Metal World Takes a Big Step Forward with Thruster Test
Engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center have just conducted a crucial test of the thruster that will take the Psyche…
Two Comet Groups Discovered Around Beta Pictoris
Between the years 2003 and 2011, the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher - better known as HARPS - made…
Was a Fifth Giant Planet Expelled from Our Solar System?
[/caption] Earth's place in the "Goldilocks" zone of our solar system may be the result of the expulsion of a…
Cosmic Collisions Could Eject Habitable Planets
[/caption] When it comes to solar systems, chances are good that we're a lot more special than we thought. According…