(Phys.org) —A normally staid University of Chicago scientist has stunned many of his colleagues with his radical solution to a 135-year-old mystery in cosmochemistry. "I'm a fairly sober guy. People ...

(Phys.org)—Researchers working out of the University of Copenhagen have published a paper in the journal Science in which they claim that a new method of dating chondrules and calcium-aluminum–rich ...

An important aspect of our model is that, although chondrules accumulate to form chondrites on small bodies, the chondrules themselves are formed by impacts on much larger bodies. Because of this, ...

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 ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. Figure 2: Oxygen-isotopic composition of minerals in the chondrule-bearing CAI. The alternative text for this image may have been ...

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 ...

Jupiter has a new birthday thanks to raindrops preserved in asteroids. These raindrops, known as chondrules, have allowed a team of scientists to accurately date the origin of Jupiter's formation for ...

Meteors that have crashed to Earth have long been regarded as relics of the early solar system. These craggy chunks of metal and rock are studded with chondrules — tiny, glassy, spherical grains that ...

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 ...

Learn how scientists used ancient raindrops preserved in meteorites to accurately date Jupiter’s creation for the first time. Jupiter has a new birthday thanks to raindrops preserved in asteroids.