By analyzing samples of the Sun's outer atmosphere captured from the solar wind, the mission aims to determine the original composition of the solar nebula, the swirl of dust and gas that formed ...

A stunning eruption unleashed by the sun two years ago is providing clues about how stars form, scientists say.

Theory Of Sun's Role In Formation Of Solar System Questioned Date: September 5, 2008 Source: University of California - San Diego Summary: A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that ...

The formation of the sun didn't take up all of the cloud it was born from. What was left continued to orbit the star, while planets formed from the leftover material.

Washington D.C. [USA], June 23 (ANI): To understand the formation of abundant jets of plasma in the Sun's atmosphere (called spicules), researchers have, for the first time, built a model.

Our solar system's planets may have formed at differing times, determined by shock waves flowing from the young sun, one astronomer suggests.

The lack of material in Mercury's orbit suggests a super-Earth may have once formed in the solar system. What happened to this primordial world?

July 15 (UPI) -- A group of international researchers said Wednesday they witnessed some of the earliest stages of a planet beyond the Earth's sun beginning to form.

A stunning eruption unleashed by the sun two years ago is providing clues about how stars form, scientists say. On June 7, 2011, the sun blasted out an enormous cloud of superheated plasma called ...