When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The shock wave from an exploding star likely helped trigger the formation of our solar system, ...

NASA’s Kepler space telescopespotted thousands of worlds during its four-year mission, proving that our galaxy is filled with planets. But even more surprising is what the Kepler database highlights ...

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 ...

"The Solar Family" is an 11-minute educational film produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Films in 1936. It presents the evolution of the solar system through the lens of the planetesimal hypothesis, a ...

With a mortar and pestle, Christy Till blends together the makings of a distant planet. In her geology lab at Arizona State University in Tempe, Till carefully measures out powdered minerals, tips ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new view of the solar system's early days proposes that the first two kinds of solid materials ...

An image from the ALMA telescope array in Chile shows jets of silicon monoxide blowing away from the young star HOPS-315. The blue jet is moving towards Earth, and the red jet is moving away from us.

The shock wave from an exploding star likely helped trigger the formation of our solar system, according to a new 3-D computer model, researchers say. The solar system is thought to have coalesced ...