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 ...

Hard and fast details about our solar system’s beginnings are extraordinarily difficult to come by. But a research team using new measurements of pristine magnetic fields within two extremely rare ...

Chondritic meteorites (chondrites) are some of the oldest rocks in our solar system, forming 4.5 billion years ago. Therefore, their primitive composition means that they offer a window into the ...

Members of the NAI UCLA team led by Ed Young are using high-precision analysis of tiny grains in meteorites to probe the earliest history of the solar nebula. The age of the solar system is set at ...

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Artist’s impression of the solar nebula. Astronomers study the leftovers of solar system formation that once existed in this cloud to understand conditions at that time. They want to know how long it ...

Some 3,000 light years away, shimmering layers of gas formed an almost perfect sphere around the faintly glowing, burned-out core of a dead star. The result looks like a giant crystal ball floating in ...

This small, unassuming mineral may be older than Earth itself. Krotite reminds us of the vast timescales and surprising ...

This week's images journeyed from the shimmering Crystal Ball Nebula to the icy south pole of Mars, highlighting beauty and ...

Astronomers have discovered a dense stellar nursery packed with infant stars in a vast "cosmic ink blot." The team made the discovery using one of the most powerful digital cameras in the world: the ...