Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

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New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

An image from the ALMA telescope array in Chile shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away from the young star HOPS-315. The blue jet is moving towards Earth, and the red jet is moving away from us.

Astronomers still aren't exactly sure how planets get their start. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you want to build a planet, ...