BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- 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, ...

LIVERMORE, Calif.– The oxygen and magnesium content of some of the oldest objects in the universe are giving clues to the lifetime of the solar nebula, the mass of dust and gas that eventually led to ...

March 28 (UPI) --A rare isotope of helium gas is leaking from the Earth's core, which suggests the planet formed inside a solar nebula, according to a study published Monday in AGU Geochemistry, ...

When our solar system formed, Mars formed earlier than Earth, and its composition gives clues about early steps in planet formation. A new UC Davis study overturns previous ideas about how rocky ...

Meteorites delivered volatiles to Mars much earlier than scientists thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new analysis of a ...

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.

In the beginning, all was dust and gas. For a while, anyway — until a great gas cloud, called the solar nebula, in what would become our solar system gradually condensed. Then came the Sun. Eventually ...

The Orion Nebula, which our solar system may have resembled some 4 billion years ago. Image: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion ...

A new study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like the Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and noble gases as ...