Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct ...

They call it the architect as it played a critical role in shaping the orbital paths of other planets and sculpting the disk ...

In the early days of our solar system, when the Sun was still young and the planets were barely formed, Jupiter wasn’t the ...

Jupiter wasn’t always the planet we know today—it was once twice as big, had a magnetic field 50 times stronger, and its ...

The orbital angular momentum of electrons has long been considered a minor physical phenomenon, suppressed in most crystals and largely overlooked. Scientists have now discovered that in certain ...

By analyzing the dynamics of these orbital discrepancies along with the planet’s conservation of angular momentum, the team could estimate its radius and interior state at about 3.8 million ...

Recent calculations suggest that Jupiter, our solar system's largest planet, was once more than double its current size.

In this module we will introduce the course on the theory of angular momentum and then introduce the quantum mechanical definition of orbital momentum. We will then use the spherical harmonics to ...

(This law of physics, which makes things spin faster as they contract, is called angular momentum.) The faster rotation flattened the cloud into a pancake, with the Sun at the center and planets ...

It's also how scientists first became aware of the planet Neptune ... there is an exchange of orbital energy and angular momentum whenever one object in space passes near another.

This spin, or angular momentum, is what keeps the disk wide and flat, and it’s also what drives planet formation. Before this study, scientists didn’t believe Bondi-Hoyle accretion could ...