For centuries, astronomers have sought to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system and the dynamics that govern it. In particular, there is the long-standing question of whether ...

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers' knowledge of planet formation and evolution. Relying on a globe-spanning arsenal of ...

Moroccan Vendor Sold an African Meteorite That Challenges Planet Formation and Solar System Timeline The evolution of our solar system was discerned from various factors, tracing them back to the ...

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers. Conventional ...

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution.

An international team of astronomers, co-led by researchers at the University of Galway, has made the unexpected discovery of ...

Ultimately, without a time machine, we will never fully recover the precise history of our solar system's formation, so we will never be entirely sure what role giant impacts had in the ...

The researchers used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), located in the Atacama Desert of Chile, to identify this very young planet, named WISPIT 2b, which orbits a ...

Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Properties of Debris Dust Around Solar-Type Stars Object Details Author Carpenter, John M. Bouwman, Jeroen Mamajek, Eric E. Meyer, Michael R. Hillenbrand, ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of planet outside our solar system that, even in its infancy, is already bigger ...