A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, ...
Astronomers have found a distant world that challenges planetary formation theory, with a rocky planet where gas giants should be.
Astronomers have found a rocky planet where it should not exist, orbiting far from a cool red star. Could this strange ...
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Asteroid evidence suggests building blocks of life formed in the frozen outer solar system
In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...
Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.
The discovery provides new insights into the question, 'how large can a planet be?' An illustration of the HR 8799 system with three of its gas ...
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, may have been responsible for a mysterious age gap in the early solar system's planet building blocks. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya ...
Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and ...
Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...
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