Dusty Accretion Disks around Supermassive Black Holes May Be Secret Planet Factories
Astronomers from New Mexico State University, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College propose…
Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang
New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100…
Meteorite Found in Africa Preserves Evidence of Long-Lost Massive Protoplanet
The Northwest Africa (NWA) 12774, an angrite meteorite discovered in the Sahara Desert, likely in Mauritania, appears to…
Active Galactic Nucleus Tori: Potential Birthplace to Millions of Planets
Transition between different accretion regimes as shown by the shading and top labels. From left to right the…
Earth’s Building Blocks Came from Close to Home, Planetary Scientists Say
A new analysis of isotopic signatures across planets and meteorite parent bodies suggests our home world formed entirely…
Astronomers Witness Aftermath of Catastrophic Planetary Collision
An unusual flickering of a young F-type star called Gaia20ehk and an expanding cloud of dust around it…
Moon-Forming Protoplanet Theia Originated from Inner Solar System, New Research Suggests
The Moon formed from a giant impact of the proto-Earth with the ancient protoplanet Theia. In a new…
Liquid Water Once Flowed on Asteroid Ryugu’s Parent Body, Scientists Say
This water flow occurred on an ancient asteroid more than one billion years after its formation and was…