While Mercury is the innermost planet in the Solar System, on average it spends more time closer to Earth than Venus does.
SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...
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An extra solar system planet once orbited next to Earth — and it may be the reason we have a moon
Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...
Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...
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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 ...
Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...
Ecuador’s vanguard moral-legal compass for nature is perhaps why the Galápagos Islands, an archipelago 900km off the ...
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