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

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

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 ...

The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

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

New research suggests that Jupiter wasn’t just a giant planet in its early years — it was a cosmic force that reshaped the entire solar system. Scientists at Rice University used advanced simulations ...

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

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 ...