Led by Purdue University assistant professor Cauê Borlina during his time at MIT, alongside senior author Benjamin Weiss, the ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million ...

Learn how a magnetic field may have helped shape the Solar System, embedding traces of ancient magnetism within a meteorite ...

As our solar system formed, tiny particles in the disk around the young Sun gradually grew larger until they became the size of small pebbles. "Once pebbles grow large enough to no longer travel along ...

Over the past three decades, computer models of planetary system formation have gone from fairly crude representations to ...

In this study, NRM measurements suggest that the observed characteristics of Ryugu particles is a chemical remanent magnetization, likely acquired during growth of framboidal magnetite that occurred ...

To better understand why the planets have variable compositions, we have to first understand the process of how stars form. While the composition of gas and dust in a precursor molecular cloud is ...

Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...