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 ...

In the crowded early Solar System, young planets frequently collided and reshaped each other. But Mercury stood out. It formed unusually close to the Sun. Mercury’s days are longer than its years. It ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new simulation of the hydrological cycle on Jupiter, modeling how water vapor condenses ...

York University planetary scientist Dr. Charles-Édouard Boukaré discusses molten rocky exoplanets: rocky planets so close to ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

This is the Martian 'spider' landform, whose formation mechanism has long puzzled the scientific community, but now ...

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 ...