A recent theory has emerged suggesting that the answer to Mercury’s unusually large metallic core may lie in the early history of our solar system. This theory proposes that a soft collision between ...

Dark matter, the invisible matter that holds the galaxies together, is entirely missing in a galaxy, a new study has shown. The study, led by Michael Keim and Pieter van Dokkum at Yale University, has ...

Austin, TX — Astronomers announced today that a mystery object orbiting a star 170 light-years from Earth might have formed from the collision and merger of two protoplanets. The object, known as ...