The primordial solar nebula was much larger than previously thought, and this may have implications for studying the planet ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The dust speck had been plucked from the tail of a comet more than 200 million miles away. Now, under an electron ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a ...

sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of a double-star system, has formed a cosmic hourglass — and the James Webb Space Telescope imaged ...

be regarded as having always been members of the solar system, however much their orbits may have changed. They are supposed to be derived from the secondary nuclei of a soiral nebula. The most ...

Light gases like helium hung around in the gas-and-dust nebula that formed the solar system for only a few million years. "It's very much debated how long it took the Earth to form," Olson said.

The entire solar system, ours at least ... that there is a similar tunnel potentially linking the LHB to the Gum Nebula. TheBrighterSide.com notes that the central positioning of the Sun within ...

At 4.5 billion years old, the Imilac meteorite dates back to the beginning of our solar system. Dr Caroline Smith, Head of Earth Sciences Collections at the Museum, sheds light on the secrets the ...

each clump being the womb of a new star system. LBN 483 is particularly interesting in that it does not seem to be part of a larger star-forming region like the Orion Nebula, and so as an isolated ...