Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

What stage of a star’s life do planets start forming? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to ...

One possible explanation is that young Mercury violently collided with a much larger protoplanet. However, simulations tracing terrestrial planet formation indicate that collisions among ...

The researchers wanted to see whether this process could have played out during the planet’s formation. When Lin, Charlier and their colleagues were preparing the experiment to mimic Mercury’s ...

We know it well: the sun at the center; then the rocky planets Mercury, Venus ... of gas giants located far from their stars nor the formation of Uranus and Neptune. Astrophysicists from LMU ...

In a leap forward in the search for life beyond Earth, an Australian astronomer has detected an unusual mix of gases in the ...

Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at ...