One of the ways that scientists study solar wind—charged particles streaming from the sun’s surface—is by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. But because the sun is so blindingly ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The Solar System was formed around 4.6 billion years ago from a giant cloud called a nebula, mainly made up of hydrogen gas and dust. The nebula collapsed under its own gravity and, as it did ...

The discovery of a planet that is far too massive for its sun is calling into question what was previously understood about the formation of planets and their solar systems. The discovery of a ...

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 ...

Using early scientific visuals and explanations, the film explores how the sun and its surrounding planets ... the fundamental concepts of planetary formation. Email us at [email protected] ...

Protoplanetary disks often form in proximity to massive stars that ... located approximately 5,500 light-years away from our sun, within a region called the Lobster Nebula, also known as NGC ...

Researchers analyzed one of the first Webb images They found signs of the "most exciting part of the star formation process" This could shed light on the formation of Sun-like stars The first ...

An international team of mathematicians and scientists reported Wednesday, May 22, 2024, that the sun’s magnetic field originates much closer to the surface than previously thought. (NASA/SDO ...

The primordial black hole is around 1 billion times the mass of our sun and was found at the center ... to a hole in our understanding of galaxy formation in the early universe.