I asked my friend Julie Ménard how Earth formed. She’s a planetary scientist at Washington State University. She told me it started with the Big Bang. That was nearly 14 billion years ago. “The Big ...
More than 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized planet may have collided with the young Earth in a cataclysmic impact. The ...
A newly studied solar system breaks the usual planet pattern, raising fresh questions about how rocky and gas planets form.