The new study suggests that gravity was an important factor but that magnetism also played a role.

Study of inclusions in a primordial meteorite suggests that magnetism must be considered in simulations of planet formation, ...

S tars and their planets form from large clouds of gas and dust. Gravity plays a major role in pulling material onto the ...

New research suggests that dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of ...

A rare look at a centaur transforming into a comet with coma is providing a missing link in the evolution of small, icy solar ...

Are comets responsible for transporting water to planets? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications ...

Saturn is home to a newly discovered phenomenon: a giant, 10-sided enigmatic pattern around its south pole known as a decagon ...

The moon could have formed within just five hours of a colossal collision that rocked the early Solar System 4.5 billion ...

New Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeling, conducted in collaboration with scientists at the University of Arizona, ...

One exploded star left behind six Earth masses of rocky planet material just 100 million years after the Big Bang, a ...

Led by Naman Bajaj of the University of Arizona and coauthored by SETI Institute scientist Uma Gorti, the research examined ...