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For The First Time, Astronomers Capture “Smoking Gun” of Early Solar System Formation

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 ...

Astronomers detect ‘impossible’ solar system that defies planet formation theories

Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
SpaceNews

The Trigger for Solar System Formation

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 ...
SETI

Meteor Showers Shed Light on Where Comets Formed in the Early Solar System

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...
Scientific American

Astronomers Witness an Alien Solar System’s Birth for the First Time

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 ...
Popular Science

For the first time, astronomers spot the beginning of a solar system

CREDIT: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of ...