Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite meteorite groups to a single dust trap beyond Jupiter’s orbit, showing for the ...

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called planetesimals, formed over millions of years. The discovery, published in The ...