It clarified past conflicting reports and indicated that the outer solar system’s faint magnetic field still supported ...

Faint magnetic properties in primitive asteroid fragments suggest an early magnetic field strong enough to shepherd the ...

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore ...

The gravitational collapse of rotating, denser-than-average "cores" within a molecular cloud results in the creation of a central protostar surrounded by a flattened spinning disk of gaseous material, ...

More information: Elias N. Mansbach et al, Evidence for Magnetically‐Driven Accretion in the Distal Solar System, AGU Advances (2024). DOI: 10.1029/2024AV001396 This story is republished ...

The Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ... The collapsing and joining together of gas and dust under gravity is called accretion. Eventually gravity compressed the hydrogen so ...