How Jupiter may have redirected life's ingredients toward Earth 4.5 billion years ago

NASA-supported scientists have provided new information about how the early Earth may have acquired some elements necessary ...
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Scientists uncover evidence of a planet that vanished from our solar system

The early solar system may have been far more chaotic than we ever imagined. A new study published in Icarus suggests that ...
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How a young Jupiter saved Earth from falling into the Sun

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 ...

One of our planets may be missing, and it could explain why the solar system looks the way it does

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

Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System’s earliest worlds

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...
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Jupiter designed the solar system. Here's what the planet was like as a child.

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 Just Found the Solar System’s Original “Planet Factory”

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