Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward ...

Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where ...

The researchers wanted to see whether this process could have played out during the planet’s formation. When Lin, Charlier and their colleagues were preparing the experiment to mimic Mercury’s ...

Although the costs of extracting them would be enormous, confirming this theory would provide valuable information about planet formation processes. Mercury is a planet that may appear brighter ...

One possible explanation is that young Mercury violently collided with a much larger protoplanet. However, simulations tracing terrestrial planet formation indicate that collisions among ...

We know it well: the sun at the center; then the rocky planets Mercury, Venus ... of gas giants located far from their stars nor the formation of Uranus and Neptune. Astrophysicists from LMU ...