A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

A new study reveals that these missing pieces may not have been absent from the start but were instead lost during violent cosmic collisions that shaped the planets. Unlocking the Mystery of Missing ...

The dust particles were brought together by the forces of drag to form clumps of rock that grew into what scientists call “planetesimals,” which are tens to hundreds of miles across, and then to ...