The universe is often portrayed as a vast stretch of emptiness, but in reality, it’s filled with unfathomable explosions, mind-bending gravitational anomalies, and an untold number of cataclysmic ...

Accumulation of dust and ice particles into planetesimals is an important step in the planet formation process. Planetesimals are the seeds of both terrestrial planets and the solid cores of gas and ...

Scientists believe the early days of our solar system were, literally, a period of violent chaos. Asteroids, comets, or protoplanets collided from all directions, dust clouds formed and then clumped ...

system. Detailed structure of such inner region has been revealed for the first time thanks to the mid-infrared high-resolution observations. The results here have a large impact on the study of ...

Using pore-scale simulations of melt networks, researchers report that melt drainage through percolation continues even as the melt fraction drops below the threshold needed to initiate percolation, ...