Protoplanet

Moon-Forming Protoplanet Theia Originated from Inner Solar System, New Research Suggests
Moon formed from a giant collision of proto-earth with an ancient protoplanet Theia. In a new study, a team of ...

Lunar Samples Returned by Apollo 17 Contain Anomalous Sulfur, New Analysis Shows
Leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon involve a giant impact between the proto-Earth and a separate impactor called ...

3I/ATLAS-Like Interstellar Objects Could Kick Start Planet Formation around High-Mass Stars
Opening 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that a significant number of interstellar objects inhabit interstellar space. Their ubiquity means that ...

Free-Floating Exoplanet Found Growing at Record Rate
CHA J11070768-7626326 (CHA 1107-7626 for short), a young isolated exoplanet is 5-10 times higher than the mass of Jupiter, experiences ...






