... . The study, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, challenges the prevailing theory of planet formation. Using three-dimensional simulations of the dust and gas that orbits young stars, the ...
... rather, pair of stars--to provide the exceptional conditions that made detection possible of the intermediate stage of planet formation by a team of astronomers, including an MIT physicist, in March.
Ancient meteorites provide clues to early solar system, formation of planets.
... Mauna Kea in Hawaii to discover three planets in orbit around the young star HR ... mine, allowing broad tests of predictions for planet formation, evolution, and atmospheric physics. The most exciting ...
A controversial new computer model suggests the gas giant's core is more than twice as big as thought, sparking debate over two of the leading theories for planet formation.
... scientists found "in large abundance" raw materials for planet formation around the nearby stars, including ... forming around double stars," Kastner says.
Planets that have just formed around young stars ...
... clearest examples yet discovered of a Keplerian, planet-forming disk orbiting a young star ... scientists used these data to identify the raw materials for planet formation around V4046 Sagittarii - carbon ...
... is predicted from the triggered star formation scenario.
"We essentially see a wave of star and planet formation that is rippling through this cloud," said co-author Eric Feigelson, also of Penn ...
The discovery of 32 new planets supports the theory that planet formation is common, and that there may be "Earth-like planets everywhere," one astronomer says. ...
... helps scientists understand the early stages of planet formation. Professor Carl Murray of Queen ... rings around Saturn gives an insight into the processes that drive planetary formation, where the proto ...
... Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "We now better understand the process of planet formation and can explain the properties of the strange exoplanets we've observed. We also know ...
... to the orbits of the planets.
"Certain types of comets are not naturally produced after planet formation, especially those with highly tilted orbits," says Prof. Gladman. "This discovery may ...
... few million years, according to a new study of planet formation around young stars. Smithsonian ... though astronomers have detected hundreds of Jupiter-mass planets around other stars, our results suggest ...
Asteroids are hunks of rock that orbit in the outer reaches of space. Scientists have generally assumed that their small size limited the types of rock that could form in their crusts but two newly ...
Processes that laid the foundation for life on Earth -- star and planet formation and the production of complex organic molecules in interstellar space -- are yielding their secrets to astronomers ...
