Our solar system is our immediate cosmic neighborhood. We know it well: the sun at the center; then the rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars; and then the asteroid belt; followed by the gas ...

A research team led by University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy Professor Yong-Zhong Qian uses new models and evidence from meteorites to show that a low-mass supernova triggered the ...

Your browser cannot play the provided video file(s). In this project, you'll create your own solar system out of playdough to learn how the planets formed.

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...

New work offers fresh evidence supporting the supernova shock wave theory of our solar system’s origin. According to one longstanding theory, our Solar System’s formation was triggered by a shock wave ...

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ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al. Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this ...

ALMA image of HOPS-315, a still-forming planetary system (Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/M. McClure et al.) International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to ...