The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A new ...

New simulations suggest that various meteorite families may have formed in the same ancient ring near Jupiter.

Discover how Jupiter's gravity shaped the solar system's rocky birthplaces through ancient meteorites, revealing insights ...

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...

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

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometer-sized chunks known as ...

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

The study examines how Jupiter played a role in the distribution of life-essential elements.

Another puzzle piece in how our solar system formed. The post Scientists Spot What Appears to Be a Ring-Shaped “Planet ...

Explore how a cosmic 'planet factory' shaped the Solar System, producing distinct worlds from a dust ring beyond Jupiter.

A new study suggests that a massive structure beyond Jupiter trapped the cosmic dust needed to form the first building blocks ...