Imagine being able to replay the formation of the Solar System, not in theory or simulation, but in real time, around a distant star. Just that is what scientists have achieved, capturing the first ...

A bright ring of dust circling a young star can look calm from far away. In reality, it may mark one of the messiest moments ...

University of Warwick astronomers have found a new way to estimate the masses of planets hidden inside the dusty disks surrounding young stars.

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called planetesimals, formed over millions of years. The discovery, published in The ...

The combination of theoretical models and empirical data provides a new perspective for understanding the complex interactions between young stars and their environments. A study led by Paolo Padoan, ...

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite meteorite groups to a single dust trap beyond Jupiter’s orbit, showing for the ...

Astronomers have found out that supermassive black holes in the centers of active galaxies can serve as the largest ...

Planetary formation and composition studies investigate the processes that govern the birth, growth and internal structure of planets and smaller bodies within a protoplanetary disk. Dust grains and ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

The astro-modified camera used to take this photo lets in the hydrogen alpha light that is normally filtered out. This modification makes the camera more sensitive to the red end of the ...

Our familiar, archetypal solar system has warm, rocky worlds like Mercury and Earth orbiting close to their star and gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn sprawled out in more distant orbits. Researchers ...