planet formation

In the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, scientists have traditionally looked for planets with liquid water at their surface. But, rather...

Little ‘hurricanes’ that form in the discs of gas and dust around young stars can be used to study certain aspects of planet formation, even for...

A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System’s history could help scientists reconstruct how and...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust.

Scientists have suggested a new explanation for the abundance in intermediate-mass exoplanets – a long-standing puzzle in astronomy.

After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto, and of the University of Cambridge...