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 ...

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 ...

SUNY Cortland Associate Professor of Physics Melissa Morris has a research interest in astronomy that dates back billions of years, to a time long before dinosaurs, plants or any other forms of life ...

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 ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, ...

The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, the major part of the ...

April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L'Aigle in Normandy, France – it rained rocks. Over 3,000 of them fell out of the sky. Fortunately no one was injured. The French Academy of ...

If CAIs formed before chondrules, then the mesostasis in A5 melted again during the chondrule-forming event. If this sequence of events occurred, CAIs and chondrules should have coexisted in the ...

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 thin sections, each section being about 50 µm ...

About 4-5% of chondrules are compound: two separate chondrules stuck together. This is commonly believed to be the result of the two component chondrules having collided shortly after forming, while ...