Planet Formation

Stellar Snow Line in Distant Solar System Spotted for the First Time Gives Insights into Planetary Formation

Scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of radio telescopes have spotted the first snow line in a distant, infant solar system for the first. The findings reveal more about solar systems in general, and how frozen molecules could speed up the formation of planets.

Extrasolar Planet Challenges Planet Formation Theories

A strange new extrasolar planet is challenging conventional theories on planet formation, forming in an extremely short period of time at an incredible distance from its parent star.

'Rosetta Stone' of Planet Formation Discovered As Scientists Estimate 100 Billion Planets Occupy the Milky Way (VIDEO)

Over 100 billion planets, mostly comprised of M dwarf stars, populate the Milky Way, according to a study recently published in The Astrophysical Journa

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