How giant impacts shaped the formation of the solar system's planets. News. By Paul Sutter published 10 January 2024 Astronomers still aren't exactly sure how planets get their start.

Dr. Wes Fraser, a co-investigator on the New Horizons science team and the lead author of the study, highlighted the broader implications of the findings. "Our Solar System’s Kuiper Belt long ...

A new view of the solar system's early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials — the precursors of space rocks and ultimately planets — both formed at the same time.

Researchers have spotted the formation sites of planets around a young star resembling our Sun. Two rings of dust around the star, at distances comparable to the asteroid belt and the orbit of Nept… ...

This dust was mostly destroyed and reworked by processes that led to the formation of planets. Surviving samples of pre-solar dust are most likely to be preserved in comets – small, cold bodies ...

A region of active star formation in the constellation Ophiuchus is giving astronomers new insights into the conditions in which our own solar system was born. In particular, a new study of the ...