Rocks Go Wild: How to Make a Solar System
How do you form Mercury, Venus, Earth AND Mars? The answer may surprise you! (or not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
An Alternative to Planet 9: Maybe there is nothing special
Planet 9. Everyone’s favorite yet to be discovered planet; famously predicted to exist due to the aligned orbits of TNOs. Today’s paper explores the question, is a Planet 9 really the most likely scenario to explain these orbits?
You Spin Me Right Round: A Magnetic Avalanche in the Solar Corona
Can a chain reaction in the magnetic field supply the energy to keep the solar atmosphere at a temperature of several million Kelvin?
Our Solar System: Another Planet or Another Disk?
Can a giant, dense disk at the outer reaches of our Solar System explain a perplexing set of observations? Read on to find out more!
A New Approach to Tilting Uranus
How do you tilt Uranus all the way on its side? A circumplanetary disk might do the trick.
The Beating Heart(-Shaped Region) of Pluto
Like human, like dwarf planet – it turns out Pluto’s heart has a “heartbeat.”