A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Unlike earlier studies, which often examined chemistry and atmospheric motion separately, the new simulations combined both.

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). In ...

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