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Planetary scientists have recently drawn a connection between the birth of Jupiter and the formation zone of Earth, ...
The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...
Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed ...
What processes were responsible for Jupiter’s formation? This is what a recent study published in Scientific Reports hopes to address as an international pair of scientists investigated the physical, ...
Billions of years ago, Jupiter’s violent growth transformed the young solar system, smashing icy and rocky bodies together at incredible speeds. These cataclysmic collisions created tiny molten ...
Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned into the planets we know today. One giant, Jupiter, grew quickly and changed ...
Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are ...