Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner ...

Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...

The universe is at it again; scientists have been baffled by a discovery that turns all the knowledge they have on planetary ...

The chemical composition of meteorites and asteroids acts as a kind of fingerprint, providing information about the origin of ...

For years, planetary scientists have argued that some of the material that built Earth must have drifted in from beyond ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

Theories around the formation of Earth have just been challenged by researchers from ETH Zurich. For a long time, the general ...

An image from the ALMA telescope array in Chile shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away from the young star HOPS-315. The blue jet is moving towards Earth, and the red jet is moving away from us.

(Nanowerk News) Paleomagnetic analysis of 28 particles from the asteroid Ryugu has provided the most detailed evidence yet of magnetic fields present in the early solar system. A research team led by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of HOPS-315, a baby star some 1,400 light-years from Earth where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages ...