Two distant planets orbiting a young star apparently smashed into each other at high speeds thousands of years ago in cosmic pileup of cataclysmic proportions, astronomers announced Monday... A similar fender-bender is thought to have formed Earth's moon more than 4 billion years ago, when a body the size of Mars rammed into Earth. Full story:
* MODERN SCIENCE AND THE ANCIENT WRITINGS ON THE GENESIS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: