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Planet cannibalism is common, says cosmic ‘twin study’
Intouchable / Openverse Yuan-Sen Ting, Australian National University and Fan Liu, Monash University How stable are planetary systems?…
April 2, 2024
New evidence for an unexpected player in Earth’s multimillion-year climate cycles: the planet Mars
Dietmar Muller Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney, and Slah Boulila, Sorbonne Université Our…
March 27, 2024
Our survey of the sky is uncovering the secrets of how planets are born
Discs giving birth to new planets, seen by the Very Large Telescope. ESO/C. Ginski, A. Garufi, P.-G. Valegård…
March 27, 2024
Orbital resonance − the striking gravitational dance done by planets with aligning orbits
Planets can gravitationally affect each other when their orbits line up. NASA/JPL-Caltech Chris Impey, University of Arizona Planets…
February 20, 2024
Understanding the Scale of the Universe
Understandably, only some are tuned to the scale of the universe, as the enormity of everything inside it…
February 2, 2024
The Solar System used to have nine planets. Maybe it still does? Here’s your catch-up on space today
Shutterstock Sara Webb, Swinburne University of Technology and Rebecca Allen, Swinburne University of Technology Some of us remember…
January 29, 2024
New Study Challenges Existence of Exomoons Orbiting Distant Planets
At a Glance Scientists have long speculated that planets in distant star systems may have moons similar to…
January 7, 2024
The afterglow of an explosive collision between giant planets may have been detected in a far-off star system
A visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. Mark Garlick, Author provided Simon…
November 2, 2023
James Webb Space Telescope Uncovers Water in Young Planet-Forming System
A groundbreaking study using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed that water might be present in rocky…
August 9, 2023