Caption Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. In the foreground, fragments of ice and rock fly away from the collision and will later ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...

The researchers created the numerical simulations using smoothed particle hydrodynamics software, considered the basis for a wide range of planetary collision studies, to model different scenarios ...

This video simulates what astronomers, studying Hubble Space Telescope observations, consider evidence for the first-ever detection of the aftermath of a titanic planetary collision in another ...

It’s thought that the shape of Sputnik Planitia and its location at the equator is down to an oblique, rather than a head-on, collision with another planetary body. “The formation of Sputnik ...

The parent "proto-planet" would have existed billions of years ago before breaking up in a collision and was about as large as Mercury or Mars. A team has published their results in the journal ...

In the final phase of terrestrial planet formation, planetary embryos and planetesimals ... we use our recently developed GPU N-body code GANBISS. GANBISS treats all collision as perfect merging and ...