Tag: planetary formation

The study of the untainted interstellar comet 2I/Borisov has allowed astronomers to compare material found in our solar system to ...

The rhythmic movement of five of the six exoplanets around the star TOI-178 could challenge theories of planetary evolution.

The results from New Horizon's New Year's Day Flyby of Kuiper Belt Object Arrokoth are in, and it could just ...

The study of molten exoplanets around Sun-like stars may provide answers as to the formation of Earth-like planets and the ...

A new shocking theory suggests that Jupiter may have sweeped through our solar system much like a wrecking ball, knocking ...

After studying ancient minerals in a meteorite, MIT scientists have gained valuable insights that help explain how the sun, the ...

Some 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, a new planet is being born and astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ...

A group from the Laboratory of Astrophysics of Bordeaux, France, and the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) has made a ...

The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance baffled researchers. So far, ...

Despite all the magnificent advancements in the field, we are still in the infancy of our research on extraterrestrial planets, ...

The discovery of 9 new planets raises some serious questions on the matter of how planets are formed. Two astronomers ...