The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...
Exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s is an unusual polar orbit of a pair of brown dwarfs. Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and ...
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...
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Why Do All The Planets Orbit In The Same Plane?

This video explains why planets in our solar system orbit in nearly the same plane, tracing their origins back to a rotating ...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the motion of spirals of dust around a young star and shown that the winding motion of the spiral pattern is conducive to planet ...