Earth, Mars, Venus — and a long-lost planet — may have once 'waltzed' in perfect harmony around the sun

Earth, Mars, Venus — and a long-lost planet — may have once 'waltzed' in perfect harmony around the sun

New simulations suggest that up to four of the solar system's rocky planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, once orbited in mathematical harmony around the infant sun.

How Earth, Venus, Mars, and a Lost Planet Once Formed a Perfectly Synchronized Dance

Recent simulations and research have unveiled a fascinating new insight into the history of the solar system’s terrestrial planets. For years, scientists speculated about how the rocky planets—Earth, Mars, Venus, and the mysterious long-lost world, Theia—formed and evolved in relation to one another. However, a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal has provided new findings suggesting that these planets, in their early years, could…