Now, new research suggests that these massive rocky planets may be the result of the failed creation of Jupiter-sized gas giants ... best of the core accretion model and competing (though more ...

The first exoplanets discovered tended to be gas giants orbiting close ... metal vapor over the course of a planet's rotation. Ideally, this will serve as a model for understanding planets that ...

Credit – Sean Raymond / MSU The original Nice model actually works better with five gas giant inner planets, but in those calculations, one of those planets is ejected out into interstellar ...

They are named this because they are all made from gas. The four ... deep inside the planet would crush and burn anything going through it. The heliocentric model shows that the Sun is at the ...

Our study focused on gas giant planets formed via the model of disc instability. They are flattened because they form from the compression of an already flat structure, the protostellar disc ...

Gas planet satellite formation models have historically used as their initial condition a circumplanetary disk containing a total mass in gas and solids necessary to produce the satellites we see.