Simulation Suggests Rocky Planet Building Blocks Formed in the Universe’s First Few Hundred Million Years
Nature World News | 08.09.2026 06:35
An international team has published simulations indicating that the solid precursors of rocky planets could have assembled in the debris of the universe's first stellar explosions, far earlier than standard models of cosmic chemical enrichment allow. The paper appeared in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and is available through its journal record, with the University of Portsmouth announcing the result in August.
