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 computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...
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 ...