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

A rare form of helium may have flooded Earth’s core during the planet’s formation in the hot, early stage of our solar system, according to a study published this week.

image: Depiction of the solar nebula dispersal in action about 3 million years after the solar system formed. view more . Credit: NASA/JHUAPL. 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 Sun and its planets likely formed in a nebula containing between 1,000 and 10,000 stars, one of which exploded as a supernova less than 1 light-year away. Skip to content Introducing the all ...

The shock front extended into the inner solar nebula, where the compressed gas and radiation heated dust particles as they struck the shock front at 20,000 miles per hour, thereby creating ...

By contrast, all portions of the solar nebula reach temperatures in excess of 1,300 K, indicating that these dust particles must have formed in the pre-solar molecular cloud, ...

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.

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore, their primitive composition means that they offer a window into the ...

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. For decades, ...

In fact, the abundance of an isotope of xenon in Hypatia indicates it formed less than 40 million years after the solar nebula started to collapse. Hypatia Meteorite.

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 ...