The formation of Mercury remains an unsolved mystery. The planet closest to the sun has a disproportionately large metallic ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

Late-stage planetary collisions reshaped Earth and its neighboring planets, delivering water, altering their atmospheres, and ...

Impact history should be considered a key factor in the search for habitable Earth-like exoplanets. Southwest Research ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

A huge heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto has intrigued astronomers since NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured it in a 2015 image. Now, researchers think they have solved the mystery of ...

Early Earth lacked life’s essentials until a collision with Theia added them. This chance event made life possible. After the Solar System formed, it took no more than three million years for the ...

For the first time ever, scientists have discovered evidence of two planets crashing into each other in a spectacular collision. These two distant exoplanets are thought to have been ice giants—like ...

Artist impression of a donut shaped cloud that was formed after two ice giant planets collided. The cloud glows dull red with the heat from the collision. An asteroid and smaller debris from the ...

Astronomers detected the dusty afterglow of a massive planetary collision in a star system 3,600 light-years away, where two giant icy worlds met their end. When you purchase through links on our site ...

A new study published onarXiv by researchers from UC Berkeley, led by theoretical physicist J.J. Zanazzi, reveals that giant impacts between young gas giants can trigger seismic oscillations lasting ...