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

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

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

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 ...