The protosun, meanwhile, continued to contract under its own gravity and grew hotter, developing into a young star. That star, our sun, ...

Artist rendition of the protosun and the solar nebula. Oxygen isotopes can be altered by ultraviolet light (gold arrows) in this environment as well. Short-lived radiogenic isotopes of aluminum ...

A new study of the asteroid Ryugu by researchers from Okayama University revealed new findings about the formation of the solar system. The peer-reviewed study, published in the Proceedings of the ...

Our sun was already shining brightly more than 4.5 billion years ago, as dust and gas was swirling into what would become the planets of the solar system, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday.

Scientists have developed a new model for the birth o the solar system, which suggests that a supernova, or exploding star, could have triggered birth of our sun in a dense cloud of gas and dust.