In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two ...

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, when Jupiter was still bulking up into the heavyweight of the solar system, it carved a gap in ...

Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The ...

Scientists have pinpointed the origin and composition of the asteroid that caused the mass extinction 66 million years ago, revealing it was a rare carbonaceous asteroid from beyond Jupiter, according ...

When asteroids struck the Earth-moon system, they devastated ancient landscapes, triggered global catastrophic events and ...

The results of the study have been published in the magazine Scientific Reports. The meteorite samples analysed in this study come from NASA’s Antarctic collection and derive from asteroids and, ...

Carbonaceous aerosols not only alter the atmospheric radiation budget, but also accelerate glacier melt by reducing the albedo of ice and snow surfaces. However, due to the heterogeneity of ...

Net zero carbon emissions is a state in which the amount of carbon emitted into the atmosphere is equal to the amount removed, making the net total emissions effectively zero. This concept can be ...