Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

A team of researchers has pinpointed a key region in the early Solar System where the building blocks of planets, called ...

Scientists may have identified one of the Solar System’s most important “planet factories” hidden just beyond Jupiter.

New work from Carnegie’s Alan Boss and Sandra Keiser provides surprising new details about the trigger that may have started the earliest phases of planet formation in our solar system. It is ...

When Jupiter finished clearing out its neighborhood, it may have done more than carve a gap in the young Solar System. Just ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

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While the upcoming total solar eclipse is a special moment to reflect on our place in the universe, scientists have been studying the birth of the sun and the formation of our solar system for a long ...