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

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

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

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...