Discover how a giant interstellar cloud known as the solar nebula gave birth to our solar system and everything in it. The solar system as we know it began life as a vast, swirling cloud of gas and ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

The Protoplanetary Disk and Planet Formation Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system originated from a vast cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. As this nebula collapsed ...

Scientists estimate there are ~1 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros) planets in the observable universe. This figure is based ...

The primordial solar nebula was much larger than previously thought, and this may have implications for studying the planet ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42) -- our solar system came from that direction!" The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.