Normally," rings around a planet are created from the remnants of meteors, moons or left over planet pieces. But this is not ...
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A ‘Very Old’ Structure Found Beyond Neptune Could Change How We See the Solar System
Astronomers might have found evidence of a structure located farbeyond Neptune, potentially giving us clues about the solar ...
A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...
Earth and the planetary object that gave rise to the Moon were likely born in the same region of the solar system.
New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...
Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...
That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...
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A Planet Slammed Into Earth 4.5 Billion Years Ago, Forming the Moon. The Projectile May Have Been Our Neighbor
Little is known about the long-destroyed moon-forming planet, Theia. But it may have been born in the inner solar system—just like Earth—a new study suggests ...
A planet's habitability is determined by a confluence of many factors. So far, our explorations of potentially habitable ...
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