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 ...

could have produced conditions that allowed rapid mineral hydration. Fred J. Ciesla, Dante S. Lauretta and Lon L. Hood of the UA and Barbara Cohen of the UH collaborated in the study. Lauretta and ...

Beyond Neptune's orbit lies a vast, ring-shaped expanse known as the Kuiper Belt. This region, home to countless icy rocks ...

If you travel far enough away from the Sun, the Solar System becomes a lot more populated. Out past the orbit of Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast, ring-shaped field of icy rocks. This is where ...

A decade of observations with the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has uncovered the existence of an intriguing cluster of objects at the edge of our Solar System. This could drastically shift our ...

A team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids and comets with new solar data sets to develop a revised solar composition that potentially reconciles ...

Bits of glass called Hiroshimaites may have formed by processes similar to those that formed the sun and the planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The Sun's formation caused temperature differences in the surrounding disk of gas and dust. Inner, hotter regions formed rocky planets from less volatile elements. Outer, colder regions allowed ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...