The binary star system ν Octantis has long been considered hostile to planet formation. The discovery of a white dwarf in the system offers an alternative view. However, Cheng and colleagues observe ...
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A Soft Collision in the Early Solar System May Explain Mercury’s Giant Metal Heart
Mercury is tiny, barely bigger than the Moon. Its metallic core makes up 70% of the planet’s mass, vastly exceeding Earth’s ...
Florida Tech astrophysicist Howard Chen is offering new insights to help aid NASA's search for life beyond Earth. His latest theoretical work investigates the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system, one of the ...
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Cosmic Seeds: How Interstellar Wanderers Forge Giant Worlds
Higher-mass stars are more efficient in capturing interstellar objects in their discs,” said Susanne Pfalzner. “Therefore, interstellar object-seeded planet formation should be more efficient around ...
The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...
Researchers from the University of Greifswald and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (both in Germany) have developed a prototype experimental setup that simulates flow properties in ...
What specific processes are responsible for planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics hopes to address as an international team of ...
During the early stages of planet formation, two different mechanisms may work in concert to help dust grains come together more rapidly Figure 1: This artist’s impression shows a young star ...
This photo shows the upper part of the water tornado model. The acrylic glas tank has a diameter of 50 centimetres and is illuminated with LED strips. The water forms a vortex whose surface shape ...
This image shows jets of silicon monoxide (SiO) blowing away from the baby star HOPS-315. (Pic credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al.) "For the first time, we have identified the earliest ...
The newly formed planet has been named WISPIT 2b, discovered in a dark gap within a dust and gas disk surrounding a sun-like star, WISPIT 2. Previously, scientists had only speculated that these gaps ...
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