Then visible light flooded the solar system for the first time. 'The 0.1% of matter that remained orbited around the Sun, causing this randomly shaped gas cloud to form a flat disc shape. This flat ...

The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system.

They're calling them "planetary embryos". Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse of a giant cloud of gas and rock and is held together by the gravitational pull of the Sun.

Long after the planets of the Solar System formed, catastrophic collisions continued, with a climax about 4 billion years ago during an interval called the Late Heavy Bombardment. The scars of ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of life’s ...

For decades, astronomers have debated how the solar system's planets formed. However, most hypotheses agree on the type of orbit the planets should have: circles that are arranged concentrically ...

As our solar system formed, tiny particles in the disk around the young sun gradually grew larger until they became the size ...