You and I got here by way of the stars. They fused simple elements like hydrogen and helium in their cores into more complicated ones like carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus and iron crucial for ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system (so large, in fact, that some scientists think it might have even consumed other worlds), a gas giant so massive that it shaped the orbits and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Asteroids have long been regarded as planetary building blocks. But they may actually be ...

Researchers propose a new model to explain the formation of most of the meteorites that make it to Earth. By Jonathan O’Callaghan “Droplets of fiery rain.” That’s how Henry Clifton Sorby, a ...

(Nanowerk News) A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry. “I’m a fairly sober guy.

Analysis of samples from asteroid Bennu has revealed objects resembling chondrules, though not identical to those found in meteorites, suggesting greater asteroid diversity than previously understood.

Jupiter has a new birthday thanks to raindrops preserved in asteroids. These raindrops, known as chondrules, have allowed a team of scientists to accurately date the origin of Jupiter's formation for ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Asteroids may be a byproduct of planet formation rather than planetary building blocks, according to a recent paper in Nature. Research done at Purdue University suggests ...

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France – it rained rocks. Over 3,000 of them fell out of the sky. Fortunately no one was injured. The French Academy of ...

Figure 1: Back-scattered electron image of the chondrule-bearing CAI. Figure 2: Oxygen-isotopic composition of minerals in the chondrule-bearing CAI. If CAIs formed before chondrules, then the ...

A normally staid scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry. At issue is how numerous small, glassy spherules had become ...

Figure 1: Abundance ratios of noble gases. In order to investigate the trapping site of subsolar gas in Yamato-791790, we performed a laser-microprobe noble-gas analysis. We prepared five polished ...