New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

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 ...

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune did not always have their current positions in the solar system. According to the ...

The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...

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

Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...

Unlike rocky planets such as Mars and Earth, angrites do not have a lot of silicon dioxide. Because of this, astronomers have ...

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A meteorite picked up from the sands of the Sahara has begun to complicate the quiet assumptions scientists often make about ...