Astronomers have developed the most realistic model to date of planet formation in binary star systems. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for ...
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A new theory of how planets form finds havens of stability amid violent turbulence in the swirling gas that surrounds a young star. These protected areas are where planets can ...
Gravity behaves predictably in your daily life. Drop a ball, and it falls. Planets loop around stars. On paper, the same ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Galileo Galilei, a mathematician at the University of Padua, trained a spyglass of his own creation on the sky, he was overwhelmed ...
A surprisingly large planet orbiting a small star defies the conventional wisdom about how planets are born. But a dark-horse idea from more than... A Peculiar Solar System Has Scientists Rethinking ...
From lazy ripples to towering breakers, the mechanics of ocean waves should vary widely from one planet to another, according ...
Four planets orbiting a newly born star in our galaxy are so light that they have the density of polystyrene, and could provide a key missing link in helping us understand how the most common ...