Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

The Perseid meteor shower will peak overnight on Thursday, Aug. 11, and this year has all the earmarks of being a great year to watch the show, thanks to the effects of Jupiter.

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

When a rogue meteor careened through the atmosphere of Jupiter last year, it caught the attention of NASA's Juno spacecraft in orbit around the giant planet.

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Jupiter was huge when the solar system was still young It’s one hell of a bowling ball. A comparison of meteorites has revealed that, in its youth, Jupiter carved a path through the solar system ...

Jupiter is oldest planet in solar system, ancient meteorites show June 12, 2017 More than 8 years ago When the solar system was about 1 million years old, Jupiter's gravity was strong enough to ...

The Cretaceous period ended in a terrible disaster that had its origins beyond Jupiter. An asteroid more than six miles wide slammed into prehistoric Central America, kicking off a global heat ...

The youngest stony meteorites in the solar system may reveal when Jupiter migrated through the asteroid belt. These meteors contain grains of metal that can only be the remnant of high-velocity ...

New simulations show that Jupiter's massive moon Ganymede was knocked off its axis when it was struck by a roughly 90-mile-wide asteroid around 4 billion years ago. The colossal collision was ...

Jupiter was an early bloomer. New measurements of meteorite ages suggest that the giant planet’s core must have formed within the solar system’s first million years.

An asteroid an estimated 6-9 miles ... showing that it was a type that originated beyond Jupiter in the outer solar system. Sign up here. The impactor, based on the debris composition, ...