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“For the first time, we have identified the earliest moment when planet formation is initiated around a star other than our Sun,” says Melissa McClure, a professor at Leiden University in the ...

In a discovery that could change how we understand the universe, a team of astronomers led by Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum has ...

“We’ve always known that the first solid parts of planets, or ‘planetesimals’, must form further back in time at earlier ...

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In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at a new company building automated construction equipment, a potential new class of virus-fighting compounds and more.

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"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.