Scientists say studying objects like Ammonite, despite their immense distance, offers valuable insight into the solar ...
A rare discovery beyond Neptune is forcing scientists to rethink early solar system dynamics and the forces that shaped ...
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 ...
Protoplanetary disks are the birthplaces of planets, but few discoveries have stretched scientific expectations like IRAS ...
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 ...
About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...
In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of a new solar system. Using a combination of data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...