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, ...

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 ...

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute have shed light on a mechanism that shaped our early Solar System. Just behind the nascent orbit of Jupiter, a vast dust accumulation zone formed, acting as a ...