Our solar system may have once harbored super-earths: Earth belongs to a second generation of planets

Monday, March 23, 2015 - 16:00 in Astronomy & Space

New calculations and simulations suggest that a number of super-Earths might have once existed in the inner solar system. Where are they now? Their demise cleared the way for the formation of planets like home sweet Earth.

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