On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

In this speedier scenario, Earth’s gravity would have pulled in a dense, thick, and high-temperature atmosphere from the solar nebula.

The supernova blast had to be close enough to the solar nebula to supply the observed isotopes but far enough away so that the explosion wouldn’t strip disk material within 30 AU from the Sun.

The process that formed the giant planet Jupiter may also have spawned some of the tiniest and oldest members of our solar system -- millimeter-sized spheres called chondrules, the major part of ...

MIT scientists have a new estimate for the lifetime of the solar nebula, the gaseous precursor of the solar system: Measurements from ancient meteorites suggest the solar nebula disappeared within ...

The solar system is thought to have coalesced from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula about 4.6 billion years ago.

The supernova may have occurred inside a cloud of this dust, and these aggregated together. Eventually this material found its way to the nebula from which the solar system formed.

The solar system is thought to have coalesced from a giant rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula about 4.6 billion years ago.

Surf’s Up In The Solar Nebula: Jupiter's Formation Linked To That Of Primitive Meteorites Date: March 11, 2005 Source: Indiana University Summary: The process that formed the giant planet ...

Ancient meteorite reveals a protoplanet formed in the outer Solar System earlier than thought, reshaping planet formation ...

Scientists 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 gas giants Jupiter and ...