The latest discovery came unexpectedly during observations of the quasar H1413+117, better known as the Cloverleaf. First detected in 1984 and located about 11 billion light-years away, this ...

There are a couple of ways that scientists can date planets, so which planets formed first in our solar system?

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

Every one of us is unique and important, but at the same time, we’re a microscopic part of something that’s beyond ...

Sir James Jeans, one of the world’s top mathematicians and an influential physicist and astronomer at the time, advanced his tidal hypothesis of planet formation in 1916. According to this theory, ...