A recent study accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters discusses how astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to examine protoplanet HD 169142 b, ...

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our solar system ...

Nearly forty years ago, Guy Consolmagno was young graduate student at the University of Arizona's Department of Planetary Sciences; his work there with the late Michael Drake first proposed that ...

New observations from a NASA spacecraft show that the huge asteroid Vesta is a battered protoplanet left over from the solar system's early days, with a unique mix of characteristics unknown from any ...

New clues to the origin of the Moon surfaced this week, which reveal that the Earth and Moon are not as similar as previously thought, and part of the protoplanet that helped create the Moon may still ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a protoplanet smashing into Earth just after it formed. The remnants of a protoplanet that slammed into Earth and ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports a ...

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A protoplanet slammed into the Earth about 4.5 billion years ago, knocking loose a chunk of rock ...

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have obtained what is likely the first direct observation of a forming planet still embedded in a thick disk of ...

Our solar system is much like a trail of microcosmic breadcrumbs: Follow the molecular bits as far back as they go, and you'll learn a thing or two about where many of our planets and other celestial ...