In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...

If a star explodes in space and no one is around to see it, does it wreak a change on terrestrial evolution? Yes, maybe – if ...

This allows us to tackle key questions about the evolution of the early solar system, planet formation, and the ingredients for life. Another aim of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to link findings from ...

The similarities could help scientists detail the evolution of our solar system and help with the hunt for other habitable worlds. The Very Large Telescope (VLT) has caught the first-ever direct ...

Surprisingly, the team found that many inner solar system planetesimals retained chondrite ... “Our work redefines how we understand the chemical evolution of planets,” Grewal explained.

An illustration of three distinct, planetesimal-forming rings that could have produced the planets and other features of the solar system, according to a computational model from Rice University.