Star and planet formation has largely been considered separate, sequential processes. But in a new study, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have modeled a different scenario where ...
As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller ...
Scientists at the Simulation and Data Lab Astronomy and Astrophysics at Forschungszentrum Jülich have carried out more than 3,000 computer simulations to find the cause of the unusual orbits of the ...
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