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

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 ...

The fire planet (Vulcan) was always theorized but never proved. During a solar eclipse over 100 years ago, some people swears ...

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 ...