Earlier this week, I reported on two new computer simulation studies that help reveal what makes our solar system so special.
Despite the probable existence of billions of planets in the Milky Way Galaxy, evidence continues to demonstrate that Earth may be alone in manifesting all the attributes for sustaining advanced life.
For more on exoplanet studies and their implications, see these previous TNRTBs about research efforts investigating planet-planet scattering and spin-orbit misalignment.
The early twentieth-century discovery of the cosmic expansion rate convinced astronomers that the universe had a beginning. Mounting evidence since then has yielded greater...
