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Stories about: planetary formation

Microlensing Reveals Rocky Exoplanet By using an investigations technique called microlensing, astronomers were recently able to discover a new rocky extrasolar planet, which they say could contribute a great deal to our understanding of how the planetary formation process usually unfolds. The newly-found object is called MOA-2009-BLG-266, and early... 18 June 2011 04:09 GMT Asteroids: the Oldest Bodies in the Solar System It is widely known that ancient space rocks floating through the solar system are amongst the oldest bodies in the solar system. Meteorites found on Earth are proof for this. However, now astronomers using the Mauana Kea telescope in Hawaii claim to have discovered three asteroids that seem to be the oldest objects i... 21 March 2008 05:46 GMT