solar system

Artist illustration of a bright star surrounded by rings of slowly differentiating material

Earth’s building blocks formed during the solar system’s first million years, study finds

artist illustration of bright sun surrounded by glowing disk of matter

Ceramic chips inside meteorites hint at wild days of the early solar system

black and white image, close-up of crystalline dust fragment

UChicago, Field Museum scientists discover oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

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Blue crystals in meteorites show that sun behaved like ‘high-energy toddler’

Solar system planets

Recently discovered solar system could seed life between adjacent exoplanets

Research proposes new theories about nature of Earth’s iron

Solar system could have evolved from poorly mixed elemental soup

Cosmochemists find evidence of rare element in early solar system

Exploding star missing from formation of solar system

Compton Lecture series on ‘Constructing the Solar System’ to begin Oct. 6