In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...

Solar eclipses have fascinated observers for thousands of years. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle pointed to the round ...

DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

Computational models carried out by an international ... The circumstances under which the planetesimals actually originated in the early solar system, and whether this was also possible for ...

The early solar system was a dynamic and turbulent environment ... orbiting the ultracool star LHS 3154 challenges traditional models, as the mass ratio of the planet to its host star is ...