In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The ...

Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The ...

New research from Rice University suggests that the giant planet Jupiter reshaped the early solar system in dramatic ways, carving out rings and gaps that ultimately explain one of the ...

"This brings us closer to understanding how not only Jupiter but the entire solar system took shape," said Konstantin Batygin, planetary science professor at Caltech and lead author of the study, in a ...

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