Most of our knowledge about the Solar System’s formation and evolution comes from the study of extraterrestrial rock samples called chondritic meteorites. These rocks, which are fragments of ...

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers' knowledge of planet formation and evolution. Relying on a globe-spanning arsenal of ...

A recently discovered solar system with six confirmed exoplanets and a possible seventh is boosting astronomers’ knowledge of planet formation and evolution.

Astronomers See Planet Formation ‘Time Zero’ in an Alien Solar System Observations of a baby star may show the earliest stages of planet formation that astronomers have ever seen ...

What happens next is a topic of heated debate among astronomers, as discussed in a recent review article summarizing our current understanding of the role of giant impacts in the formation of planets.

Observing this early phase of evolution around a protostar will allow scientists to learn more about the formation of our own Solar System.

Rowan University geology chair Harold Connolly, Jr., Ph.D., who serves as mission sample scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ...

Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer Solar System.

Object Details editor Pessah, Martin Gressel, Oliver Notes "The scope of subjects that make up this volume primarily originates from a topical workshop on "Young Star Systems" that took place in April ...

Astronomers Witness an Alien Solar System’s Birth for the First Time Observations of a baby star may show the earliest stages of planet formation that astronomers have ever seen ...