Figure 1: Jetting of melted material during an accretionary impact. An important aspect of our model is that, although chondrules accumulate to form chondrites on small bodies, the chondrules ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mysterious spherical droplets in meteorites aren’t just cosmic oddities. They’re evidence of planetary formation. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The toaster-sized capsule hit our atmosphere at 12 kilometers per second, enduring temperatures of 3,000 degrees Celsius during its fiery descent before deploying a parachute to slow its velocity. It ...