Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million ...

How did the first solids that made up planets, moons and asteroids form from the "hot soup" that characterized our solar system's earliest years? New research from Caltech analyzing pieces of a ...

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 ...

Astro Brief is a podcast collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and Materials Science. Hosted by Dr. Mike Reed, Astro Brief focuses on ...

PHOENIX — A Flagstaff scientist is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in an effort to uncover how the solar system was formed. Astronomer Dr. Will Grundy is a planetary ...