Planetary formation

Artist illustration of a bright star surrounded by rings of slowly differentiating material

Earth’s building blocks formed during the solar system’s first million years, study finds

View of a star partially obscured by a large rocky planet with magma ocean

Why some planets eat their own skies

Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth’s iron

Death star

Astronomers discover dark past of planet-eating ‘Death Star’

Daniel Fabrycky BW

Daniel Fabrycky

Title: Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Expertise: Exoplanets, Planetary formation, Planetary science

Departmental website: https://astro.uchicago.edu/people/daniel-fabrycky.php