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 ...
Everything we know about the formation of solar systems might be wrong, says University of Florida astronomy professor Jian Ge and his postdoc, Bo Ma. They’ve discovered the first “binary-binary” – ...
The outer solar system once seemed like a quiet backwater. But a glut of tiny, strange moons with unruly orbits are coming ...
Meteorite fragments land across every corner of Earth. But among the roughly 80,000 meteorites discovered so far, only a ...
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Scientists may have found one of the main sources of rocky material for the solar system, forming diverse populations of baby ...
The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...
A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...