Bennu asteroid samples point to a surprising origin involving Jupiter

The asteroid Bennu orbits the sun once every 1.2 years and approaches Earth every six years, passing within around 300,000 ...
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Jupiter trapped the ingredients for planets, and Earth was built from them

Everything you’ve ever stood on, every rock, every continent, every grain of sand, may have been manufactured in a single cosmic trap hiding behind the biggest planet in our neighbourhood. How does ...

Jupiter uses a surprisingly complex system to fend off particles from the sun

A University of Iowa-led research team has reported in a new study the most detailed observations to date of the bow shock at Jupiter, our solar system's gas giant. The findings from NASA's Juno ...

Astronomers Just Caught a Giant Planet in the Act of Forming

Material from the disk is actively accreting onto the Jupiter-mass planet, which sits within a prominent gap in the disk, ...
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Jupiter designed the solar system. Here's what the planet was like as a child.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Jupiter ...
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Jupiter’s defense against the sun is stranger than scientists expected

Juno has revealed an unexpectedly complex system of plasma waves and shock structures that helps Jupiter slow the solar wind.
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On Jupiter, it's mushballs all the way down

Observations of Jupiter show that ammonia is unevenly distributed in the upper atmosphere, against expectations of uniform mixing. Scientists found evidence for a complicated but apparently real ...
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Jupiter designed the solar system. Here's what the planet was like as a child.

Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, was 2 to 2.5 times bigger in its earlier life, according to new research. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Tanya Oleksuik Jupiter, the ...