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Rethinking Mercury's Origins: Common Collisions, Not Catastrophic Ones

What type of impact created Mercury’s giant core and thin crust? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the impact processes that caused Mercury to lose a large chunk of its crust and ...

Exo-Pluto Shredded by White Dwarf's Gravity

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how a white dwarf star is consuming an icy and rocky exoplanet in a far-off solar system. This study has the ...

K2-18b: Not the Ocean World Once Imagined

Are Hycean exoplanets, which are a combination of hydrogen and a potential liquid water ocean, less common than previously hypothesized? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists challenged how characteristics of a recently discovered ...

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