The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system. According to the nebular hypothesis, our star system formed from the ...

Our ability to detect planets outside our Solar System is becoming more refined. Thus, astrophysicists can now detect ...

They are labeled as such because they embody an untouched sample of the solar system, with their composition remaining unaltered for billions of years. Scientists study meteorites to determine the ...

The sample brought back to Earth by the Hayabusa 2 space probe is described as being very “fresh” because it originated relatively soon after the birth of the solar system about 4.6 billion ...