Late Infall Triggers Asymmetric Carbon Chemistry in HD 142527’s Protoplanetary Disk

Unmasking the Cosmic Mystery: How HD 142527 is Changing Our View of Planet Formation For years, astronomers have looked at the star system HD 142527 and seen a chaotic, asymmetrical dance of dust and gas. But new data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is turning our understanding of this “planet nursery” on its … Read more

Mysterious Dust Ring Shaped the Early Solar System

The Cosmic Traffic Jam: How Jupiter Shaped Our Solar System’s Building Blocks For decades, planetary scientists have scratched their heads over a fundamental mystery: why do meteorites—the ancient debris of our solar system—look so vastly different from one another? Some are packed with heat-forged inclusions, while others are soft, crumbly mixtures of fine-grained dust. New … Read more