Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...

Are comets responsible for transporting water to planets? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications ...

Might the first moments of planet formation be more understandable than ever before? Fresh observations suggest that the creation of worlds such as our own is perhaps happening right in front of us, ...

A Moon impact 3.5 billion years ago may have uncovered a forgotten chapter of Solar System history. Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a lunar meteorite are helping scientists understand a violent era ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...