About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Tiny shavings from a single meteorite could completely overturn our understanding of how the solar system formed, after the space rock turned out to be older than expected. Previous research suggests ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

A new peer-reviewed study finds that early planet formations were assembled from fragments of earlier bodies within the Solar System.

New studies offer a clearer picture of how the outer solar system formed and evolved based on analyses of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and centaurs. The findings reveal the distribution of ices in ...

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'We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to where the sun and planets were forming.' When you purchase through links on ...

In the early days of our solar system, when the Sun was still young and the planets were barely formed, Jupiter wasn’t the gas giant we see today. In fact, today’s Jupiter would look like a midget in ...

ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes Water is found in the ocean, rivers, lakes, and ponds. Water exists as solid ice and in liquid form. ESS2.A: Earth Materials and Systems (3-5) ...

Damanveer Singh Grewal suggests that planetesimals in the early solar system emerged from a succession of high-energy ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

The JWST has studied the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk circling a giant planet 625 light-years away.