New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...
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 ...
Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, ...
Rocky fireballs like the one that fell over Alberta, Canada last year shouldn't originate from the icy Oort Cloud... but this one apparently did. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
NASA scientists stunned as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shows bizarre near-Sun behaviour, defying known physics and hinting at ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to enter the solar system, is prompting renewed scientific debate ...
Recent scientific modeling has proposed a fascinating theory about how Pluto captured its largest moon, Charon. The theory ...
Recent research challenges the prevailing theory that hot Jupiters (gas giants orbiting close to their stars) form through a disruptive process that prevents the existence of smaller planets in the ...