A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

Our solar system has two ice giants, Uranus and Neptune, but there may have been a third. According to a new study published ...

We usually think of our Solar System as a calm, well-organized family of planets, but a new study suggests its early days may ...

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune did not always have their current positions in the solar system. According to the ...

Chemical signatures indicate the meteorite came from an early planet that met an untimely end during the formation of our ...

The study, published in Science Advances, focuses on two elements that are essential for life as we know it: nitrogen and ...