Tag: Planet formation

  • Health

    How Earth was watered

    Evidence is mounting that Earth’s water arrived during formation, aboard meteorites and small bodies called “planetesimals.”

    3–5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Planets form in cosmic maelstrom

    At first glance, the center of the Milky Way seems like a very inhospitable place to try to form a planet. New research by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that planets still can form in this cosmic maelstrom.

    2–3 minutes
  • Health

    Studying the roots of life

    Key amino acids important for biological life are among the ones most easily formed in nature, according to Ralph Pudritz from McMaster University.

    2–3 minutes