Ancient stars located surprisingly near to our sun formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang — suggesting part of the Milky Way is much older than previously thought, a study has found.
Frothy and resembling an ice cream sundae — that’s how NASA described a newly-released, stunning image of a cosmic tornado ...
The Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from ... to heat and radiation pressure from the fusion reactions. The Sun is expected to be a main sequence star for billions of years.
The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing ...
New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.
Our Sun was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud called a stellar nebula, mainly made up of hydrogen gas and dust. The nebula collapsed under its own gravity and, as it did ...