Planet formation used to sound straightforward: dust clumps into rocks, rocks grow into worlds, and the rest is detail. A ...

MIT scientists may have finally found the answer to the difference in polar weather of the almost similar planets.

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Spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet have helped researchers map out an ancient coastline that surrounded a large ocean ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...