A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.
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The cosmic clock of the solar system: How angular momentum shaped planetary orbits and regular moons
Explore the story of our solar system’s formation, tracing how a vast cloud of gas and dust collapsed under gravity, collisions, and angular momentum to create a thin, spinning protolanetary disc.
Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Astronomers have observed a planetary system that challenges current planet formation theories, with a rocky planet that formed beyond the orbits of its ...
Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.
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Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one world at a time
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a different mechanism than the familiar one by which most systems grow ...
A rocky exoplanet in the LHS 1903 system defies planet formation models, hinting that gravitational upheaval reshaped the red dwarf’s four worlds.
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Asteroid evidence suggests building blocks of life formed in the frozen outer solar system
In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...
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