Get the latest Science News and Discoveries

Rocky Planets May Have Started Forming Just 100 Million Years after Big Bang


New simulations suggest supernova explosions of the Universe’s first stars scattered the ingredients for rocky planets only 100 million years after the Big Bang, with water already present in some planet-forming disks.

None

Get the Android app

Or read this on Sci-News

Read more on:

Photo of Rocky Planets

Rocky Planets

Photo of Big Bang

Big Bang

Related news:

News photo

Black holes older than the Big Bang could explain dark matter

News photo

NASA’s Voyager 2 survives daring ‘big bang’ maneuver

News photo

Rivers of magma once bubbled beneath crust of Mars, research suggests | Finding widens selection of rocky planets that may once have been habitable