The Moon and its Giant Impact
After another planet slammed into young Earth, the Moon formed in Earth’s new ring, right? Right?… Well, time to challenge what you know about how the Moon came to be.
Movement in the Dust: Detecting Planetary Candidates via Disk Kinematics?
In today’s paper, the authors analyze millimeter and submillimeter ALMA observations of a protoplanetary disk, and find kinematic signs of candidate companions within!
Journey to the center of terrestrial planets
One step closer to finding Earth2.0!
Dynamical Duo: An Updated Understanding of the Orbits of the Two Giant Planets in the HD 45354 System
In today’s paper, the authors take another look at the HD 45354 planetary system, and come to new conclusions about the orbit of the two gas giants within!
Knock, knock. Who’s there? A free floating planet!
Not that long ago, in a system not too far away, a free-floating planet pays a visit… to HD 106906, a binary star system with an exoplanet and a debris disk!
Diffusion and depletion of carbon monoxide in disks
Where is the missing carbon monoxide in protoplanetary disks? Today’s paper suggests that it might have something to do with turbulent mixing in disks as well as the physics of condensation.