In this web focus, we present research papers, overview articles and opinion pieces that discuss how large impacts influenced the evolution of the early Solar System. Melt rocks returned from the ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System ... Connection to Earth's Early History Dec.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

Things were very different back then. We used to think the early solar system looked a bit like a dartboard, with concentric rings of material orbiting our sun. But a team of researchers now ...

Hyodo and his team used advanced computer models to revisit this theory ... their hypothesis is the connection to the chaotic early solar system. During the formative years of the solar system ...

However, those simplified early models treated the colliding material ... each other but didn't lose a lot of material to the solar system. Pluto is bigger and started and ended up with much ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Studies of the samples from asteroid Bennu brought back to Earth by NASA's spacecraft have revealed that the early solar system had widespread conditions and ...