About 4.6 billion years ago, when Jupiter was still bulking up into the heavyweight of the solar system, it carved a gap in the swirling disk of gas and dust surrounding the young Sun. At the outer ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simulations suggest one dust trap beyond Jupiter formed multiple planetesimal types over millions of years. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / ...
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center ...
Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the origin ...
WASHINGTON – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has provided new data on the Jupiter system, stunning scientists with never-before-seen perspectives of the giant planet’s atmosphere, rings, moons and ...
Billions of years ago, what is now our Solar System was nothing more than a vast spinning disk of gas, rock, and dust. Researchers have now discovered that, in the midst of that primitive environment, ...
A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...
In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two million years. New simulations suggest the same ring-shaped region sorted and ...
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