Simulations reveal that Jupiter’s rapid growth disrupted the early solar system, creating rings where new planetesimals formed much later than expected. These late-forming bodies match the ages and ...

Did you know our entire Solar System is cocooned inside a giant protective bubble, known as the heliosphere? Created by the perpetual outflow of charged particles from the Sun, called the solar wind, ...

Jupiter is the reason why Earth exists today, a new study has found. The gas giant prevented gas and dust from flying towards the inner solar system and into the sun, thus preserving the building ...