New simulations suggest that various meteorite families may have formed in the same ancient ring near Jupiter.

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

Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The ...

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

Explore how a cosmic 'planet factory' shaped the Solar System, producing distinct worlds from a dust ring beyond Jupiter.

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

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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 ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two million years. New simulations suggest the same ring-shaped region sorted and ...

A NASA-backed study reveals Jupiter's massive gravity likely redirected life-essential elements like phosphorus and nitrogen ...

The strength of gravity is different on every body in the solar system. Whether it's the crushing weight of Jupiter or the ...