In some cases, to learn more about our solar system, all we have to do is look at evidence found on Earth. Researchers from Japan's Nagoya University and the Italian National Institute for ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...

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 ...