Radioactive heat in the early solar system could have melted globs of dust ... The results could solve several puzzles about the composition of meteorites found on Earth and may explain why ...

Like a cosmic wrecking ball, Jupiter may have swung through ... may help solve a long-standing puzzle: why our solar system is so different from others. In our galaxy, at least, the standard ...

Jupiter may have acted like a giant wrecking ball in the newborn solar system, roaming in to destroy ... it is as if the scattered pieces of the puzzle are finally falling together into a coherent ...

Rocks melted in the early solar system after electrical currents spiked ... which would be expected in space. "This was a puzzle, because quite a lot of material must have passed through this ...

Mercury, our solar system’s planetary runt of the litter, has long been a puzzle. It’s twenty times smaller than Earth and fifteen times smaller than Venus. And in terms of diameter ...

Two probes are exploring the bizarre outer reaches of our solar system this year – and sending ... the wilder reaches of YouTube have taken the ball and run with it. ‘Alien contact!

Astronomers say they have figured out the true chemical makeup of our solar system, revealing that it contained much more carbon, oxygen and nitrogen than previously thought. Chiefly, the finding ...

A meteor that blazed through the skies over Brazil last month may have been a visitor from another solar system. The space rock flashed through the night sky above Rio Grande do Sul on May 30 and ...

Rocks melted in the early solar system after electrical currents spiked ... which would be expected in space. "This was a puzzle, because quite a lot of material must have passed through this ...