August is proving to be a dazzling month to head outside and gaze up at the sky. Among the many remarkable events to marvel ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...

Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the origin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simulations suggest one dust trap beyond Jupiter formed multiple planetesimal types over millions of years. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / ...

In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two million years. New simulations suggest the same ring-shaped region sorted and ...

When the solar system formed, a disk of gas and dust orbited the young sun. Over the course of millions of years, the dust gradually clumped together to form kilometer-sized chunks known as ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has captured an extraordinary image of Thebe, the second-largest of Jupiter’s inner moons, providing new insights into the planet’s distant ring system. This close flyby, which ...

The rings around Uranus have mystified astronomers for almost half a century. Now, thanks to a combination of ground- and space-based telescopic observations, scientists think they’ve worked out where ...

Saturn’s rings and its largest moon, Titan, are seen by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute Our solar system appears to be very stable. The orbits of planets, moons, ...

Whatever future space explorers may find, a couple of California scientists have already decided that the big planet Jupiter and the little planet Earth have at least one thing in common: each is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 4, 1979, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. ['On This Day in Space' Video Series ...