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 ...
"The scope of subjects that make up this volume primarily originates from a topical workshop on "Young Star Systems" that took place in April 2016 as part of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics."- ...
A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star.
“Thanks to our results, we know that the proto-Earth was initially a dry rocky planet,” says Kruttasch. “It can therefore be ...
I/ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov, and 3I/ATLAS. Each offers unique insights into shape, composition, and trajectory, revealing interstellar chemistry, comet formation, and cosmic dynamics. 3I/ATLAS, passing ...
The early solar system is still a bit of a mystery to scientists, but the secret to learning Jupiter's origins might be ...