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A ROCKY alien world is so toasty that Nasa says it “could be another circle of hell”. The scorching 6,800C planet is called ...

“The standard idea of gas planet formation is that planets start as rocky cores, which then gravitationally attract and accrete gas from their surroundings…It turns out that in this standard ...

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Unlike Earth and other rocky planets, Jupiter lacks a solid surface. It’s composed entirely of gas and liquid, making it ...

And that reasoning could be related to the planet’s rocky core. Gas giants are believed to begin as massive rocky cores with 10 times the mass of the Earth. From there, they rapidly pull in ...

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The huge spacecraft is headed toward the icy moon Europa, where it will use an array of instruments to survey for geologic activity, magnetism and more ...

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“The standard idea of gas planet formation is that planets start as rocky cores, which then gravitationally attract and accrete gas from their surroundings…It turns out that in this standard model, it ...