Later, I researched and learned that they were referring to carbonaceous chondrites, which are those meteorites that, when ...

The cosmos is a vast and fascinating expanse, filled with curiosities. Meteorites, remnants of this cosmic expanse, hurtle ...

Scientists have solved how molten "raindrops" in meteorites, called chondrules, were formed — and the discovery reveals key details about Jupiter's origin.

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

Smithsonian researchers analyzed fragments of the near-Earth asteroid and discovered water-rich clays that hint at a distant ...

A team from Nagoya University in Japan and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) have used a new method to ...

Ancient droplets found in meteorites reveal the history of planet formation. About 4.5 billion years ago, Jupiter expanded quickly into the giant planet we see today. Its immense gravity disturbed the ...

The research team, by comparing samples from 17 well-known meteorites around the world, found that the carbonaceous chondrites preserved in the Antarctic ice sheet commonly exhibit these "chemical ...

What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to ...

Scientists have pinpointed Jupiter's birth to 4.6 billion years ago, a mere 1.8 million years after the solar system's ...