When scientists want to understand the earliest history of our Solar System, they’ve typically turned to ancient meteorites. These celestial objects that come to Earth are remnants of the building ...
A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. Combined with data from the James Webb Space ...
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Hubble confirms 400-billion-mile ‘planet factory’—largest ever dwarfs our solar system 40 times over
Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...
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Peering through a cosmic keyhole at distant baby star, astronomers may have opened a new window on the deep past of our own solar system. Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to ...
New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...
Rosetta's trip to a comet might make scientists second guess the idea that magnetic fields led to the formation of planets. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...
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