Scientists studying asteroids found that two seemingly unrelated types share a strange dusty coating of troilite. By using ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Astronomers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a new model to better understand “steam worlds,” or water-rich sub-Neptunes – ...

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The condensing of hot minerals was never detected before around other young stars, “so we didn’t know if it was a universal feature of planet formation or a weird feature of our solar system ...

HOPS-315 is also giving astronomers a new opportunity to study early planet formation, serving as a stand-in for newborn solar systems across the galaxy.

For the First Time, Astronomers Capture ‘Smoking Gun’ of Early Solar System Formation Telescopes detected the first stages of hot minerals condensing from gas around a young star called HOPS-315 ...