We demonstrate that the deep volatile storage capacity of magma oceans has significant
implications for the bulk composition, interior, and climate state inferred from exoplanet mass …

Seismic images of Earth's interior have revealed two continent-sized anomalies with low
seismic velocities, known as the large low-velocity provinces (LLVPs), in the lowermost …

Neptune-sized planets exhibit a wide range of compositions and densities, depending on
factors related to their formation and evolution history, such as the distance from their host …

We simulate the collision of precursor icy moons analogous to Dione and Rhea as a
possible origin for Saturn's remarkably young rings. Such an event could have been …

Context. The Gl 486 system consists of a very nearby, relatively bright, weakly active M3. 5 V
star at just 8 pc with a warm transiting rocky planet of about 1.3 R⊕ and 3.0 M⊕. It is ideal …

The Moon is traditionally thought to have coalesced from the debris ejected by a giant
impact onto the early Earth. However, such models struggle to explain the similar isotopic …

Abstract Super-Earths and sub-Neptunes are the most common planet types in our galaxy. A
subset of these planets is predicted to be water worlds, bodies that are rich in water and …

Context. The number of exoplanets with precise mass and radius measurements is
constantly increasing thanks to novel ground-and space-based facilities such as HARPS …

One of the unique aspects of Earth is that it has a fractionally large Moon, which is thought to
have formed from a Moon-forming disk generated by a giant impact. The Moon stabilizes the …

Planets grow in rotating disks of dust and gas around forming stars, some of which can
subsequently collide in giant impacts after the gas component is removed from the disk …