Stories by Javier Barbuzano

Javier Barbuzano is a freelance science journalist from Spain. He writes about astronomy, Earth sciences, and the environment. His work appears in publications such as Sky & Telescope, Eos, Science News and Quanta.

An illustration of a protoplanetary disk around a young star

Planetary ScienceApril 22, 2026

The solar system’s first solids formed in a rush

Rather than slowly condensing over millions of years, the first building blocks of Earth and other planets may have formed rapidly in a chaotic disk at the dawn of the solar system

Javier Barbuzano