The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

New research shows how Jupiter carved out rings and gaps that changed how and when planets and meteorites formed.

Not all of the solar system’s building blocks formed simultaneously. Some of the first solid bodies, or planetesimals, formed in the first million years after the Sun was born. Others, including the ...

New simulations from Rice University reveal how Jupiter’s rapid early growth blocked gas and dust from reaching the Sun, ...

Jupiter was shaping the fate of our solar system long before Earth came into existence. A new study conducted by scientists ...

Yale astronomers may have discovered the origin story for one of the universe’s most dazzling phenomena — the double “hot Jupiter” — as well as a plan to find more of them. Hot Jupiters are large, ...