The solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago by the explosion of a star at the end of its life cycle, according to a groundbreaking study of meteorites. Research suggests a low-mass supernova was ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

Discovery of oxygen raises new questions about how solar system formed. In this undated photo, Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P. ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 — -- The European Space ...

Astronomers have witnessed the creation of a solar system for the first time. Data captured by the ALMA telescope in Chile and the James Webb Space Telescope showed planets forming around a star in ...

The Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud called a nebula close nebulaA cloud of gas and dust in outer space. If massive enough, these can collapse under gravity to ...

Over four billion years ago, the solar system was a wild and dangerous place. Swirling clouds of dust and gas slowly turned ...

First, a piece of basalt simulating an asteroid was secured in place, and opposite it was a target material resembling early ...

They are located some 1400 to 1800 light years away from Earth and can be seen in the same part of the sky as the Andromeda Constellation, best observed in autumn in the northern hemisphere. “Studying ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...