Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System ... 19, 2024 — New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian ...

Researchers found How Violent Events During Earth's Formation Led to the Scarcity of Moderately Volatile Elements (MVE) Like ...

Furthermore, the research indicates that Ryugu's parent body formed relatively early in the solar system's history, approximately 2 million years after the formation of the first solids.

Brown, Rein and Malhotra think that sometime during the Solar System’s formation, an uninvited guest anywhere between 2 and 50 times the mass of Jupiter barged in fast enough to both shift the disk’s ...

Galaxies are astronomical objects composed of billions or even trillions of stars. Our Earth and solar system are just a tiny ...

Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...