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

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 ...

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

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

The findings suggest Jupiter's formation shaped the chemistry that helped make habitable worlds possible.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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