Led by Purdue University assistant professor Cauê Borlina during his time at MIT, alongside senior author Benjamin Weiss, the ...

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Dust from meteorites contains a "fossil record" dating back 4.6 billion years to the formation of the sun, revealing the role magnetism played in the birth of the solar system.

Meteorites preserve fragments of the earliest solid materials that formed around the young Sun. The Solar System began as a cloud of dust and gas called the solar nebula — the Sun formed at the centre ...

Before Earth existed — before the Sun ignited — ancient stars lived out their full lives, forged their elements, and died. A study published July 29 in Science Advances now shows that some of their ...

A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal has traced six chemically distinct families of the Solar System's oldest meteorites to a single ring-shaped dust trap just beyond Jupiter's orbit — ...

Observations of a young star offer a glimpse of the high-temperature conditions that shaped rock formation in the early Solar System. Most of our knowledge about the Solar System’s formation and ...