Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...
Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in 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 ...
When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust ...
For decades, astronomers have tracked a small group of space rocks that share Earth’s orbit around the sun. Among them, ...