Planet Formation

To stick or to bounce.

Our planet's water must have arrived late in the history of Earth's formation.

The disks around protostars are different from more-evolved proto-planetary disks.

This makes the chance of other habitable planets in the Universe more likely.

The second-ever discovery of a multiplanetary circumbinary system.

Resembling dusty infrared donuts.

The images also provide clues to the composition of the disk.

A method to constrain a planet’s mass or age.

Early-formation picture is likely to be correct.

One more clue to the Moon’s origin.

It may also show how other rocky planets were formed.

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether...