Scientists Just Found the Solar System’s Original “Planet Factory”

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter. When the Solar System first formed, the young Sun was surrounded by a sprawling disk of gas and dust. Over millions of years, tiny grains within that disk collided and merged into larger rocky bodies called planetesimals. Some [...]

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