Cosmic curveball: Distant system challenges planet-formation theory

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...
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‘Inside-out’ planetary system breaks the rules of planet formation

A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.
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Life on Earth is lucky: A rare chemical fluke may have made our planet habitable

Life on Earth may exist thanks to an incredible stroke of luck — a chemical sweet spot that most planets miss during their formation but ours managed to hit.
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Inside-out planetary system turns our understanding of how planets form upside-down

We know that our Solar System is not the blueprint for all planetary systems out there. There are gas giant planets orbiting ...
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Earliest days of Earth's formation

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.
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When did our solar system's planets form? Discovery of tiny meteorite may challenge the timeline

Analysis of an ancient meteorite suggests that rocky planets both near and distant from the sun may have formed at the same ...

Craig Walton, astrobiologist, our planet has life thanks to being in its chemical Goldilocks zone at birth: “Earth is precisely within this range”

The wonders of life on Earth are endless, but all that may never have come to pass were it not for the planet having the perfect amount of oxygen at birth.

Discovery in the Earth’s core: casts doubt on the origin of much of the planet’s water

Scientists suggest that huge reserves of hydrogen inside the Earth may have been key in the formation of water.